[ɾ]→[l]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Lateralization Liquids Austronesian Koreanic

Voiced alveolar flap to Alveolar lateral approximant

The transformation from a voiced alveolar flap [ɾ] to a voiced alveolar lateral approximant [l]. This liquid shift is often part of a broader liquid merger or dialectal variation.

Phonetic Effects

Lateralization

Language Examples

Korean Koreanic

[ɾ]→[l]— The phoneme /l/ is realized as a flap [ɾ] intervocalically and as a lateral [l] syllable-finally.

Tagalog Austronesian

[ɾ]→[l]— Historically related sounds that often interchange in various Philippine languages.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Lateralization Shifts

[dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [ei] → [e] — Monophthongization [ɡʲ] → [tɕ] — Palatalization [k] → [∅] — Elision [p] → [b] — Voicing

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