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[t]→[dʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Palatalization Affrication Voicing Germanic Italic

Voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiced postalveolar affricate

The shift from dental/alveolar [t] to the voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ] is a significant development in the history of several languages, often mediated by palatalization and voicing.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Affrication, Voicing

Language Examples

English Germanic

don't you [t+j]→donchu stage toward voicing [dʒ]— English yod-coalescence shows [t+j] moving toward [tʃ] and in some dialects or specific contexts, further voicing to [dʒ].

Romance Italic

Latin *t before front vowels→[dʒ] in specific dialectal developments— In several Romance varieties, dental stops followed by front vowels or glides underwent palatalization and affrication, eventually becoming voiced in some positions.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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