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[kʲ]→[tʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Palatalization Affrication Slavic Romance Germanic

Palatalized voiceless velar plosive to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

Primary palatalization of velars involves a significant forward shift in place of articulation. A palatalized voiceless velar stop [kʲ] moves forward to the postalveolar region and develops a fricative release, resulting in the affricate [tʃ].

Phonetic Effects

Affrication, Fronting

Language Examples

Slavic (First Palatalization) Slavic

*rekti→rechu [retʃu] (Old Slavic)— The First Slavic Palatalization changed velars to postalveolar affricates/fricatives before front vowels.

Romance (Latin to Italian/Old French) Romance

Latin 'centum' [k]→Italian 'cento' [tʃ]— Latin /k/ before front vowels /e, i/ regularly developed into [tʃ] in Italian.

English (Old English Palatalization) Germanic

*kinn (Proto-Germanic)→chin [tʃin]— Old English underwent palatalization of velars near front vowels, shifting [k] to [tʃ].

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

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