[g]→[n]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiced velar plosive to Alveolar nasal
Nasalization of [g] to [n] typically occurs through assimilation in connected speech or through the historical reduction of nasal-stop clusters.
Phonetic Effects
Nasalization, Assimilation
Language Examples
ng- [ŋg]→n- [n]— In some Bantu languages, the voiced velar [g] in prenasalized clusters assimilates fully to the nasal, yielding [n] or [ŋ]. See also Meinhof's Law contexts.
gnat [gn-]→[næt]— Flagged: this shows g→∅ (initial cluster deletion), not g→n. The [g] was dropped, not converted to [n].
Related Transformations
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