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[t]→[ɸ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 1/5

Lenition Labialization Austroasiatic

Voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiceless bilabial fricative

Extreme lenition and labialization of the voiceless alveolar stop [t] into the voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ].

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Labialization

Language Examples

t→ɸ— Historical weakening and labialization observed in specific branches.

Related Transformations

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition

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