[ɣ]→[ɾ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 1/5

Voiced velar fricative to Voiced alveolar flap

The transformation from a voiced velar fricative to an alveolar flap is a specific type of velar-to-rhotic rhotacism, often occurring via an intermediate uvular stage or through direct place-of-articulation drift.

Phonetic Effects

Rhotacism, Fronting, Lenition

Language Examples

Western Daju Daju

*ɣ→r [ɾ]— An unconditional sound law where the voiced velar fricative shifted to an alveolar rhotic.

Malay Dialects Austronesian

r [ɾ]→ɣ— While the inverse shift, dialects like Kedah and Terengganu show the fluid boundary between these sounds where the rhotic stabilizes as a velar fricative.

Related Transformations

Reverse Retraction Rhoticization

More Austronesian Shifts

[ɡʲ] → [tɕ] — Palatalization [k] → [∅] — Elision [s] → [r] — Rhotacism [s] → [ɾ] — Lenition [b] → [ɸ] — Lenition

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