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[l]→[tʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Assimilation Palatalization Romance Indo-European Afro-Asiatic Consonant Cluster

Alveolar lateral approximant to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The phonetic transformation from the alveolar lateral approximant /l/ to the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ is primarily attested through processes of assimilation and palatalization, often occurring within consonant clusters.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Assimilation

Language Examples

Libyan Arabic Afro-Asiatic

/al-tʃarruuta/→/itʃ-tʃarruuta/— Assimilation of the definite article /al-/ to a following /tʃ/.

Spanish Romance

Latin CONCHULA→concha /kon.tʃa/— Evolution of Latin /CL/ cluster to /tʃ/ through palatalization.

Latin TRUNC(U)LARE→tronchar— Evolution of Latin /CL/ cluster to /tʃ/.

Latin *MANC(U)LA→mancha— Evolution of Latin /CL/ cluster to /tʃ/.

Portuguese Romance

Latin TRUNC(U)LARE→tronchar— Evolution of Latin /CL/ cluster to /tʃ/.

Latin *MANC(U)LA→mancha— Evolution of Latin /CL/ cluster to /tʃ/.

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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