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[ʂ]→[s]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Consonants Merger Deretroflexion Sino-Tibetan

Voiceless retroflex fricative to Voiceless alveolar fricative

The retroflex fricative [ʂ] is often pronounced as the alveolar fricative [s] in Southern Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin phonology.

Phonetic Effects

De-retroflexion, Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Taiwanese Mandarin Sino-Tibetan

[ʂ]→[s]— Widespread merger of retroflex fricatives into alveolar counterparts.

Related Transformations

More Consonants Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [g] → [k] — Voice Loss

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