[n]→[s]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5
Alveolar nasal to Voiceless alveolar fricative
The alveolar nasal [n] shifts to the voiceless alveolar sibilant [s], a process often involving both the loss of voicing and the replacement of nasal closure with a narrow sibilant constriction.
Phonetic Effects
Sibilantization, Lenition, Devoicing
Language Examples
*-ns-→*-s-— Common reduction of nasal-sibilant clusters leading to compensatory lengthening or simple sibilantization.
Related Transformations
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