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[ɬ]→[∅]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Elision Na-Dene

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative to Empty sound / Zero

The elision of the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] is observed in languages like Tlingit during specific cluster reduction processes.

Phonetic Effects

Elision

Language Examples

Tlingit Na-Dene

[ɬ]→∅— Loss of the lateral fricative in complex coda structures.

Related Transformations

Inverse: Epenthesis

More Elision Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [d] → [∅] — Elision [e] → [∅] — Elision [ɛ] → [∅] — Elision [i] → [∅] — Elision

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