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[ts]→[j]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Lenition Palatalization Voicing Affricate Approximant Celtic Sino-Tibetan

Voiceless alveolar affricate to Voiced palatal approximant

The phonetic transformation from the voiceless alveolar affricate [ts] to the voiced palatal approximant [j] is an attested, albeit less common, sound change. This shift typically involves a combination of lenition, palatalization, and voicing, where the complex affricate articulation is simplified to a glide, its place of articulation moves towards the palate, and it acquires voicing.

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Voicing, Palatalization

Language Examples

Welsh Celtic

tsips→jips— A soft mutation (lenition) of /ts/ to /j/ is observed in casual speech, particularly in borrowings, as in 'chips' becoming 'jips' after a soft mutation trigger.

Proto-Northern-Chin Sino-Tibetan

t-s→j— A reconstructed historical shift from 't-s' to '-j' is noted in Proto-Northern-Chin phonology.

Related Transformations

Reverse Lenition (deaffrication)Affrication (palatalization)Affrication (palatalization)

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [bʲ] — Palatalization [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication

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