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[ʂ]→[ʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Merger

Voiceless retroflex fricative to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

The voiceless retroflex fricative [ʂ] often merges with the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ] in many Mandarin dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Mandarin (Dialectal) Sino-Tibetan

[ʂ]→[ʃ]— Common in Southern Mandarin varieties where retroflexion is lost.

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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