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[dʲ]→[z]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Palatalization Assibilation Romance Slavic

Palatalized voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced alveolar fricative

Assibilation of palatalized voiced dental stops occurs when a voiced dental stop [d] undergoes palatalization and then evolves into a sibilant affricate or fricative. This process typically proceeds through an intermediate stage of a voiced sibilant affricate like [dz] before simplifying to a voiced fricative [z].

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Assibilation, Affrication, Spirantization, De-affrication

Language Examples

Romance Romance

Latin [dj]→Italian 'orzo' [dz]— Development of Latin [dj] sequence in 'hordeum' > Italian 'orzo' [dz].

Slavic Slavic

Proto-Slavic [dz]→Russian [z]— The Second Palatalization results in Russian 'vrazi' [vrazʲi] (enemies) from earlier [vradzʲi], showing the transition through a voiced affricate [dz] which later de-affricated to [z].

Related Transformations

Reverse voiceless counterpart

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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