[ʈ]→[z]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 1/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Assibilation Indo-Aryan

Voiceless retroflex stop to Voiced alveolar fricative

The voiceless retroflex stop [ʈ] transforms into a voiced alveolar fricative [z] through a process of assibilation and voicing. This shift is typical in environments where stops weaken into fricatives while losing their retroflexion.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation, Voicing

Language Examples

Mandarin Sino-Tibetan

[ʈ]→[z]— Dialectal Mandarin variation or historical shifts in certain Northern accents where retroflex stops assibilated.

Indic languages Indo-Aryan

[ʈ]→[z]— Occasional assibilation of retroflex stops in specific phonetic contexts in Indic dialects.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Indo-Aryan Shifts

[ai] → [e] — Monophthongization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication

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