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[g]→[tɕʰ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Palatalization Devoicing Aspiration Sinitic

Voiced velar plosive to Voiceless aspirated alveolo-palatal affricate

Middle Chinese voiced velar [g] (群 group) devoiced and was palatalized in Mandarin; in the level tone before [i, y] it surfaces as aspirated [tɕʰ] (cf. oblique-tone g_to_ch_palatal).

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Devoicing, Aspiration

Language Examples

Mandarin Chinese Sinitic

Middle Chinese 求 gjuw 'seek'→qiú [tɕʰjoʊ]— Level-tone voiced initial → aspirated.

Middle Chinese 琴 gim 'zither'→qín [tɕʰin]

Middle Chinese 橋 gjew 'bridge'→qiáo [tɕʰjɑʊ]

More Palatalization Shifts

[b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʲ] — Palatalization [d] → [dʒ] — Palatalization

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