[ẽ]→[o]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5
Nasalized close-mid front unrounded vowel to Close-mid back rounded vowel
Denasalization with backing and rounding of the nasalized close-mid front vowel [ẽ] to the close-mid back rounded vowel [o]. This shift involves loss of nasality combined with vowel backspace movement and rounding, occurring as part of nasal vowel reorganization in Romance dialect variation, particularly in French vowel shift patterns.
Phonetic Effects
Denasalization, Backing, Rounding
Language Examples
[ɛ̃]→[o]— In some French dialects, nasal vowels undergo counterclockwise vowel space shifts where /ɛ̃/ backs and rounds toward close-mid back vowel space, particularly before certain consonants or in casual speech.
[ɛ̃]→[o]— Historical denasalization processes in Romance may have involved intermediate stages with vowel quality and backness changes, though direct documentation of this specific change is limited.
Related Transformations
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