[ð]→[v]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Voiced dental fricative to Voiced labiodental fricative

The shift from the voiced dental fricative [ð] to the voiced labiodental fricative [v] is a specific form of 'th-fronting'. In this process, the point of articulation moves forward from the teeth to the lips while maintaining the fricative manner.

Phonetic Effects

Labialization, TH-fronting

Language Examples

London Cockney English Germanic

brother [ˈbrʌðə]→bruvver [ˈbrʌvə]— Common medial th-fronting.

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) Germanic

mother [ˈmʌðə]→muvver [ˈmʌvə]— Th-fronting occurs frequently in word-medial position, merging the dental fricative with the labiodental fricative.

Related Transformations

Reverse Voiceless equivalent

More Germanic Shifts

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

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