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[n]→[ĩ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Nasalization Coda Loss Sinitic Min

Alveolar nasal to Nasalized close front unrounded vowel

In Southern Min, a final -n after a high front vowel was lost and the vowel became nasalized (vernacular layer).

Phonetic Effects

Nasalization, Coda Loss

Language Examples

Southern Min (Hokkien) Sinitic

天 MC then [-n]→thiⁿ [tʰĩ] (vernacular)— The literary reading keeps the coda: thian / then.

Related Transformations

More Nasalization Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication

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