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

Assibilation Affrication Germanic Japonic

Voiceless aspirated alveolar plosive to Voiceless alveolar affricate

The shift from [tʰ] to [ts] is known as assibilation, a process where a stop consonant develops into an affricate. This is a common stage in consonant shifts, notably the High German Consonant Shift.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation, Affrication

Language Examples

High German Germanic

Proto-Germanic *t→ts (z)— The High German Consonant Shift involved the assibilation of [t] (often aspirated [tʰ]) to [ts] (initially) or [s] (medially/finally). E.g., English 'two' vs. German 'zwei' [tsvaɪ].

Japanese Japonic

/t/ before /u/→[tsu]— Allophonic assibilation of /t/ to [ts] before the high back vowel /u/.

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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