[ĩ]→[nʲ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5
Nasalized close front unrounded vowel to Palatalized voiced alveolar nasal
The transformation from a nasalized close front unrounded vowel /ĩ/ to a palatalized voiced alveolar nasal /nʲ/ is an attested historical sound change, often involving the reinterpretation of vowel nasality and the development of a consonantal segment, frequently influenced by adjacent sounds or the loss of a preceding nasal consonant.
Phonetic Effects
Nasalization, Palatalization, Vowel-to-consonant Shift, Fortition
Language Examples
khatĩã→khatiña— 'chain' (older Zuberoan to modern Zuberoan)
lozebĩã→lozebiña— 'wasp' (older Zuberoan to modern Zuberoan)
erregĩã→erregiña— 'Queen' (sixteenth-century Alavese to modern Zuberoan)
vio→vinho— From Latin 'vinum', the intermediate stage 'vio' would have contained a nasalized vowel /ĩ/ which developed into /nʲ/.
Related Transformations
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