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[e]→[ai]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Diphthongization Lowering Gliding Germanic Romance

Close-mid front unrounded vowel to Diphthong ai

Diphthongization of close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] to diphthong [ai] through vowel lowering with gliding.

Phonetic Effects

Diphthongization, Lowering, Gliding

Language Examples

English (Great Vowel Shift influence) Germanic

[e]→[ai]— Diphthongization in certain accents.

German (dialectal) Germanic

[e]→[ai]— Regional vowel development.

Romance languages (historical) Romance

[e]→[ai]— Historical sound change patterns.

Related Transformations

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

Sources & References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthongization

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