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[ɲ]→[z]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Denasalization Sinitic

Palatal nasal to Voiced alveolar fricative

In many Southern varieties the Middle Chinese palatal nasal initial (rì 日) became an alveolar fricative [z].

Phonetic Effects

Denasalization, Fricativization

Language Examples

Wu Chinese (Shanghainese) Sinitic

人 MC nyin [ɲ] (in 人民 rénmín)→zən [zən] (zən-min)— Literary reading; the colloquial reading of 日 is gniq, with ɲ kept.

Related Transformations

Northern outcome

More Sinitic Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [g] → [k] — Voice Loss [m] → [n] — Place Assimilation

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