[ð]→[ɾ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 1/5

Voiced dental fricative to Voiced alveolar flap

The transformation from a voiced dental fricative to an alveolar flap is a form of rhotacism where a dental consonant simplifies its articulation into a brief alveolar tap.

Phonetic Effects

Rhotacism, Lenition, Alveolarization

Language Examples

Ostrobothnian Finnish Uralic

ð→ɾ/r— Historical shift where the medieval dental fricative reflex of 'd' became a rhotic in Western dialects.

Armenian Armenian

*d [→ ð]→r— Reconstructed stage in the shift of the PIE cluster *dw to rk.

Related Transformations

Reverse Stopping Rhotacism

More Indo-European Shifts

[d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [e] → [o] — Backing [∅] → [ã] — Compensatory Nasalization [∅] → [ẽ] — Compensatory Nasalization [∅] → [õ] — Consonant Loss

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