[ũ]→[o]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Nasalized close back rounded vowel to Close-mid back rounded vowel

Denasalization and lowering of the nasalized close back rounded vowel [ũ] to the close-mid back rounded vowel [o]. This shift involves loss of nasality combined with lowering of vowel height, occurring through denasalization processes in Romance language evolution.

Phonetic Effects

Denasalization, Lowering

Language Examples

French (medieval to modern) Romance

[ũ]→[o]— In Romance denasalization evolution, nasalized high back vowels undergo denasalization with lowering toward mid vowel space.

Portuguese (dialectal) Romance

[ũ]→[o]— In some Portuguese dialects, nasalized [ũ] becomes denasalized and lowers in casual speech before non-nasal obstruents.

Related Transformations

Reverse Simple denasalization without lowering Denasalization of close-mid back nasal vowel

More Romance Shifts

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

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