[ð]→[ʔ]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 1/5

Debuccalization Lenition Reduction Germanic

Voiced dental fricative to Glottal stop

The shift from the voiced dental fricative [ð] to a glottal stop [ʔ] is a rare form of debuccalization. It typically occurs in rapid, informal speech where function words like 'the' are heavily reduced, losing their oral dental articulation entirely.

Phonetic Effects

Debuccalization, Lenition, Reduction

Language Examples

Northern English / American Dialects Germanic

of the [ð]→[əʔə]— Informal reduction of the dental fricative to a glottal catch in frequent word sequences.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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