[ɡʲ]→[dʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5
Palatalized voiced velar plosive to Voiced postalveolar affricate
Similar to its voiceless counterpart, the voiced palatalized velar stop [ɡʲ] shifts its place of articulation forward to the postalveolar region, acquiring a fricative release to become the voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ].
Phonetic Effects
Affrication, Fronting
Language Examples
*drug- (friend)→druzhe (vocative)— Velar /g/ shifted to /dʒ/ (later /ʒ/ in many Slavic languages) before front vowels.
Latin 'gentem'→Italian 'gente' [dʒ]— Latin /g/ before front vowels /e, i/ regularly developed into [dʒ] in Italian.
*brudgi (Proto-Germanic)→bridge [bridʒ]— Old English palatalization of geminate velars or velars in specific environments yielded [dʒ].
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