[ĩ]→[ã]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Lowering Nasalization Vowel Shift Romance

Nasalized close front unrounded vowel to Nasalized open front unrounded vowel

The shift from a high nasalized vowel [ĩ] to a low nasalized vowel [ã] represents a process of lowering, often seen in the historical development of nasal vowels where nasalization triggers a downward shift in vowel height.

Phonetic Effects

Lowering

Language Examples

French Romance

[ĩ]→[ã]— Historical development from Latin i: + nasal consonant, passing through stages like [ɛ̃] before reaching [ã] in some dialects or mergers.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Nasalization Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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