[ẽ]→[ã]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Nasalized close-mid front unrounded vowel to Nasalized open front unrounded vowel

Nasal Lowering involves the shifting of a nasalized vowel to a lower tongue position. This process often maximizes the acoustic space for nasal resonance, which is clearer in lower, more open vowels.

Phonetic Effects

Lowering, Nasalization

Language Examples

French Romance

Old French [ẽ] (dẽnt)→Modern French [ɑ̃] (dent)— Historical lowering of nasalized /e/ in French (Latin dentem > Old French dẽnt > Modern French dɑ̃).

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Nasalization Shifts

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

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