[h]→[ʃ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 3/5

Voiceless glottal fricative to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

Palatalization of the glottal fricative [h] into a postalveolar fricative [ʃ] occurs when the sound is influenced by following high front vowels or glides, as seen in Bantu and East Asian languages.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Fortition, Sibilization

Language Examples

Kirundi Bantu

/h/ + /j/→[ʃ]— Morphophonological palatalization in verb conjugations.

Japanese Japonic

/h/ + /i/→[ç] ~ [ʃ]— Allophonic shift toward a palatal sibilant.

Related Transformations

Affrication Debuccalization

More Palatalization Shifts

[b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʲ] — Palatalization [d] → [dʒ] — Palatalization [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization

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