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[ts]→[l]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 5/5

Voiceless alveolar affricate to Alveolar lateral approximant

The transformation of the voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/ to the alveolar lateral approximant /l/ is a documented phonetic shift, observed as a form of lenition where a more complex obstruent simplifies to a sonorant.

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Simplification of Affricate to Approximant, Change in Manner of Articulation From Affricate to Lateral Approximant

Language Examples

Sesotho Bantu

/ts/→/l/— A common phonetic change in the Sotho-Tswana group of languages, where /ts/ can shift to /l/ or /d/.

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [∅] — Elision

Sources & References

Sesotho language - Academic Kids.

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