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Voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate to Empty sound / Zero

The complete loss or elision of a voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate, resulting in a zero sound, represents an extreme form of lenition. This phonetic transformation can occur in specific historical periods or phonetic environments, often as part of broader sound changes within a language's phonological evolution.

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Affricate Loss, Elision, Zeroing

Language Examples

Sumerian Isolate

ř→∅— The Sumerian phoneme /ř/, reconstructed by some scholars as a voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate [tsʰ], underwent a gradual loss of its independent phonemic status, eventually reducing to zero in standard cuneiform writing.

Related Transformations

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More Lenition Shifts

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

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