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[lʲ]→[ʎ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 4/5

Palatalization Romance

Palatalized voiced alveolar lateral approximant to Voiced palatal lateral approximant

The transformation of a palatalized alveolar lateral [lʲ] into a true palatal lateral [ʎ].

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Place Shift

Language Examples

Spanish Romance

[lʲ]→[ʎ]— Historical evolution of the lateral liquid in various Romance languages.

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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