[ŋ]→[j]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Velar nasal to Voiced palatal approximant

Reduction of velar nasals to palatal glides represents a weakening of the nasal articulation, often as a stage in the loss of nasal consonants or their transformation into glides in specific vocalic environments.

Phonetic Effects

Reduction

Language Examples

Historical Germanic Germanic

*-ing-→-y— In certain historical developments, the velar nasal weakened through a glide stage, leading to the loss of the nasal consonant and the formation of diphthongs or glides.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

Sources & References

Spotted a mistake or have a better example?

EchoDrift is community-driven. You can suggest a change directly through GitHub.

Propose an Edit on GitHub