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[j]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Elision Romance

Voiced palatal approximant to Empty sound / Zero

Intervocalic palatal glides are highly susceptible to weakening and eventual loss in many language families.

Phonetic Effects

Elision

Language Examples

Latin to French

regina→reine— Intervocalic /g/ > [j] > ∅.

Related Transformations

More Romance Shifts

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

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