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[ʈ]→[ʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 1/5

Palatalization Lenition Sino-Tibetan

Voiceless retroflex stop to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

Palatalization and merger of the voiceless retroflex stop [ʈ] into the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ].

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Lenition

Language Examples

ʈ→ʃ— Dialectal Mandarin retroflex stop shifting toward postalveolar fricative.

Related Transformations

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication

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