[θ]→[tʰ]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 3/5
Voiceless dental fricative to Voiceless aspirated alveolar plosive
The transformation from a voiceless dental fricative (θ) to a voiceless aspirated alveolar plosive (tʰ) is a phonetic shift characterized by fortition. This often occurs when a language lacks the dental fricative in its native phonological inventory and substitutes it with a phonetically similar, but more 'fortis' (stronger) sound, such as an aspirated stop, particularly in the context of loanword adaptation.
Phonetic Effects
Fortition, Change of Manner, Change of Place, Addition of Aspiration
Language Examples
/ə.ˈθɔ.rə.ti/→/ə.ˈtʰɔ.rə.ti/— Adaptation of the English word 'authority' into Urdu, where /θ/ is substituted with /tʰ/.
Related Transformations
More Indo-Aryan Shifts
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