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[dz]→[ʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Palatalization Spirantization Slavic Romance Italic

Voiced alveolar affricate to Voiced postalveolar fricative

The shift from the voiced alveolar affricate [dz] to the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ] mirrors the voiceless shift, involving both palatalization and spirantization of the voiced sibilant series.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Spirantization, Shift

Language Examples

Slavic (Historical variation) Slavic

dz→ʒ— Developments in the voiced affricate series where [dz] simplifies into the corresponding postalveolar fricative.

Romance (Dialectal) Italic

dz→ʒ— Stages in the weakening of voiced palatalized stops/affricates toward voiced fricatives.

Related Transformations

Reverse Spirantization Palatalization

More Romance Shifts

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

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