[ʃ]→[h]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5
Voiceless postalveolar fricative to Voiceless glottal fricative
Debuccalization of the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] to the glottal fricative [h], typically involving a loss of oral articulation.
Phonetic Effects
Debuccalization, Glottalization
Language Examples
historical *s/ʃ→h— Historical shift of sibilants to glottal fricatives (e.g. Proto-Indo-European *septm → Greek hepta).
s/ʃ→h— Aspiration of sibilants in syllable-final position or as a general dialectal trait.
Related Transformations
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