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

Palatalization Spirantization Slavic Romance Italic

Voiceless alveolar affricate to Voiceless postalveolar fricative

The shift from the alveolar affricate [ts] to the postalveolar fricative [ʃ] represents a process of palatalization and spirantization. This is common in languages undergoing sibilant mergers or shifts in the affricate system.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Spirantization, Shift

Language Examples

Polish (Historical developments) Slavic

ts (historical)→ʃ (dialectal variation)— Variations in the realization of alveolar affricates in specific environments, often shifting toward postalveolar fricatives.

Romance (Dialectal variation) Italic

ts→ʃ— Common development where historical [ts] (from palatalized [k]) further spirantizes and shifts back to [ʃ].

Related Transformations

Reverse Spirantization Palatalization

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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