[i]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Close front unrounded vowel to Empty sound / Zero

The elision of [i] is a widespread process of vowel loss, especially common in unstressed positions or when the vowel is devoiced between voiceless consonants.

Phonetic Effects

Elision, Syncope, Devoicing

Language Examples

Japanese Japonic

shita [ɕita]→[ɕta]— Devoicing and eventual deletion of the high vowel between voiceless consonants.

English Germanic

history [ˈhɪstəri]→[ˈhɪstri]— Syncope: deletion of the unstressed vowel in rapid speech.

Related Transformations

Inverse: Prothesis

More Germanic Shifts

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

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