[ʈ]→[ɖ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 5/5

Voicing Assimilation Lenition Nilo-Saharan Kadu

Voiceless retroflex stop to Voiced retroflex stop

Voicing assimilation is a common phonetic process where a voiceless sound becomes voiced due to the influence of neighboring voiced sounds. This phenomenon can affect retroflex stops, transforming the voiceless retroflex stop /ʈ/ into its voiced counterpart /ɖ/. This shift is often triggered by a voiced phonetic environment, such as being intervocalic or adjacent to a nasal consonant.

Phonetic Effects

Voicing, Assimilation, Lenition

Language Examples

Kufo Nilo-Saharan

/ʈ/→/ɖ/— In Kufo, the voiceless retroflex stop /ʈ/ can become the voiced retroflex stop /ɖ/ in noun singularization when a syllabic nasal precedes it.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Assimilation Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication

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