[ɡʱ]→[ɟ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5
Voiced aspirated velar plosive to Voiced palatal plosive
The transformation from a voiced aspirated velar plosive to a voiced palatal plosive involves both palatalization and deaspiration. This type of shift is a documented historical sound change, primarily observed in the development of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar aspirated stops in certain daughter languages, particularly within the Satemization process.
Phonetic Effects
Palatalization, Deaspiration
Language Examples
*ǵʰ→ɟ— The Proto-Indo-European palatovelar aspirated stop *ǵʰ (phonetically often reconstructed as [g̟ʲʱ], a fronted or palatalized aspirated velar) underwent a shift to a voiced palatal plosive [ɟ] in the Satem branch of Indo-European languages. This is a key feature of the Satemization process.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǵʰan-→jahí— The Proto-Indo-Iranian root *ǵʰan- (itself a reflex of PIE *ǵʰ) developed with a palatal onset 'j' (often realized as a voiced palatal affricate [d͡ʒ] or a voiced palatal stop [ɟ]) in Vedic Sanskrit, as seen in the imperative form 'jahí' ('kill!').
Related Transformations
More Indo-Aryan Shifts
Sources & References
- Ringe, D. (2017). 4.3. Consonants of Proto-Indo-European, part 2: places of articulation; nasals. In The Indo-European Language Family: A Linguistic and Cultural History. Cambridge University Press.
- Clackson, J. (2007). Indo-Iranian (Chapter 14). In The Indo-European Language Family. Cambridge University Press.
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