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[ɡʱ]→[j]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Voiced aspirated velar plosive to Voiced palatal approximant

The shift from the voiced aspirated velar stop [ɡʱ] to the palatal approximant [j] is a form of palatalization and lenition. This weakening often occurs before front vowels where the velar closure is pulled forward and eventually reduced to a glide.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Lenition

Language Examples

Old English (Historical) Germanic

historical *ɡ (from PIE *ɡʱ)→[j]— PIE *ɡʱel- > PGmc *gastiz > OE 'geolu' [j], leading to Modern English 'yellow'.

Related Transformations

Reverse Intermediate spirantization

More Germanic Shifts

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

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