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[k]→[ɸ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 1/5

Lenition Labialization Japonic

Voiceless velar plosive to Voiceless bilabial fricative

Extreme lenition and labialization where the voiceless velar stop [k] transitions into the voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ].

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Labialization

Language Examples

k→ɸ— Historical stages of extreme lenition.

Related Transformations

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [∅] — Elision

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