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

Palatalized voiced velar plosive to Voiced velar plosive

Depalatalization, or hardening, is the loss of the palatal secondary articulation of a consonant. It typically occurs when a language simplifies its phonemic inventory or in specific phonetic environments, such as before back vowels or word-finally in certain dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Hardening, Loss of Palatalization

Language Examples

Russian (Contextual) Slavic

nogi [gʲ]→noga [g]— Velar depalatalization (or rather, the retention/return of the hard velar) occurs when a front vowel is replaced by a back vowel in inflectional morphology.

Related Transformations

palatalization

More Slavic Shifts

[a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [e] → [i] — Vowel Raising [e] → [o] — Backing

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