[g]→[s]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 3/5

Voiced velar plosive to Voiceless alveolar fricative

Assibilation of [g] to the sibilant [s] (often via an affricate stage) is a historical process found in the development of Romance and other language families.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation, Spirantization

Language Examples

French (Historical) Romance

gentem (Latin g-) [g]→gens [ʒɑ̃]— Latin /g/ before front vowel → Old French [dʒ] → Modern French [ʒ]. NOTE: the result is voiced [ʒ], not [s]; this example illustrates the g→ʒ chain rather than direct g→s.

Related Transformations

Fortition

More Romance Shifts

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

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