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[ʂ]→[h]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Debuccalization

Voiceless retroflex fricative to Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless retroflex fricative [ʂ] undergoes debuccalization to a glottal fricative [h] in some Sinitic dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Debuccalization

Language Examples

Sinitic Dialects Sino-Tibetan

[ʂ]→[h]— Shift of articulation to the glottis.

Related Transformations

More Consonants Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [ɡʱ] → [h] — Debuccalization

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