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[ei]→[o]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Monophthongization Rounding Romance Germanic

Diphthong ei to Close-mid back rounded vowel

Monophthongization of diphthong [ei] to close-mid back rounded vowel [o] through vowel merger with rounding.

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Rounding, Backing

Language Examples

Portuguese (rapid speech) Romance

[ei]→[o]— Reduction in casual speech.

Dutch (dialectal) Germanic

[ei]→[o]— Regional vowel shift.

German (informal) Germanic

[ei]→[o]— Colloquial vowel reduction.

Related Transformations

More Rounding Shifts

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

Sources & References

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

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