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[t]→[ts]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Assibilation Affrication Germanic Japonic

Voiceless alveolar plosive to Voiceless alveolar affricate

Assibilation of [t] to [ts] often occurs before high vowels, particularly [u] or [i], or as part of broader consonant shifts.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation

Language Examples

Japanese Japonic

/t/ + /u/→[tsu]— The phoneme /t/ is realized as the affricate [ts] before the high back vowel /u/.

High German Germanic

t→ts (z)— The High German Consonant Shift turned Proto-Germanic *t into the affricate [ts] in initial positions (e.g., English 'two' vs. German 'zwei').

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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