[c]→[k]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiceless palatal plosive to Voiceless velar plosive
The retraction or depalatalization of a voiceless palatal stop back to a voiceless velar stop is less common but can occur in dialectal simplification or historical mergers.
Phonetic Effects
Retraction, Depalatalization
Language Examples
General Phonetic Multiple
[c]→[k]— Observed in various languages as a simplification of the palatal stop to the more common velar stop.
Related Transformations
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