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[ʈ]→[tʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Voiceless retroflex stop to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The merger or shift of the voiceless retroflex stop [ʈ] into the voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃ] is a common dialectal development in many language families, particularly in Sinitic and Indo-Aryan languages.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Merger

Language Examples

Mandarin (Dialectal) Sino-Tibetan

historical [ʈ]→[tʃ]— In several Southern Mandarin dialects and some varieties of Cantonese, retroflex sounds merge into postalveolar or alveolar affricates.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Palatalization Shifts

[b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʲ] — Palatalization

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