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[dʒ]→[ʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Voiced postalveolar affricate to Voiced postalveolar fricative

Deaffrication / Spirantization. The voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ] loses its stop onset, becoming the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ]. This is a common historical shift in several Romance languages.

Phonetic Effects

Deaffrication, Spirantization

Language Examples

French Romance

jor [dʒor]→jour [ʒur]— Historical development where the affricate [dʒ] became the fricative [ʒ].

Portuguese Romance

dʒ→ʒ— Observed in regional dialectal variation.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Romance Shifts

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

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