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[ʃ]→[ts]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 2/5

Voiceless postalveolar fricative to Voiceless alveolar affricate

The voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] shifts to the voiceless alveolar affricate [ts], representing a complex change involving both place retraction and affrication. This process is attested in historical sound change and phonological variation across multiple language families.

Phonetic Effects

Place Change, Affrication

Language Examples

Slavic languages (historical) Slavic

[ʃ]→[ts]— Historical shift from postalveolar to alveolar with affrication in Proto-Slavic evolution.

Polish (borrowing adaptation) Slavic

[ʃ]→[ts]— Phonetic realization where [ʃ] is adapted to native [ts] patterns in loanword adaptation.

Russian (allophonic) Slavic

[ʃ]→[ts]— Allophonic variation in certain phonological contexts or in rapid speech.

Related Transformations

Reverse: deaffrication

More Slavic Shifts

[a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʒ] — Palatalization [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [e] → [i] — Vowel Raising

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