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[pʰ]→[h]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Debuccalization Armenian Consonant Shift Indo-European

Voiceless aspirated bilabial plosive to Voiceless glottal fricative

Debuccalization of aspirated stops into the glottal fricative [h] occurs when the oral articulation of the stop is lost, leaving only the aspiration as the phonetic reflex.

Phonetic Effects

Debuccalization

Language Examples

Armenian Indo-European

*p→h— Proto-Indo-European *p evolved into [h] in Classical Armenian through an aspirated stage (e.g. PIE *pǝtēr > Arm. hayr).

Ancient Greek Indo-European

pʰ→h— In certain dialectal developments, aspirated stops can weaken and eventually debuccalize.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Consonant Shift Shifts

[tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [e] → [o] — Backing [∅] → [ã] — Compensatory Nasalization [∅] → [ẽ] — Compensatory Nasalization

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