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[i]→[ai]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Diphthongization Lowering Gliding Germanic Romance

Close front unrounded vowel to Diphthong ai

Diphthongization of close front unrounded vowel [i] to diphthong [ai] through vowel lowering with gliding.

Phonetic Effects

Diphthongization, Lowering, Gliding

Language Examples

English (some accents) Germanic

[i]→[ai]— Diphthongization in certain environments.

German (historical) Germanic

[i]→[ai]— Historical vowel development.

Romance (historical) Romance

[i]→[ai]— Sound change in language evolution.

Related Transformations

More Romance Shifts

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

Sources & References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthongization

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