[ɲ]→[ɴ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Palatal nasal to Uvular nasal

Retraction from palatal to uvular nasals typically occurs in specific phonological environments, such as assimilation to back vowels or as a stage in systemic nasal harmony within certain phonetic structures.

Phonetic Effects

Retraction

Language Examples

Nasal Harmony Stages Various

ɲ→ɴ— The transition from a palatal to a uvular articulation can be found in the historical development of nasal harmony in several African and South American languages where vowels influence the point of nasal articulation.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Assimilation Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [e] → [o] — Backing [∅] → [ŋ] — Epenthesis [g] → [q] — Retraction [k] → [g] — Voicing

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