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[ũ]→[uo]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Nasalization Diphthongization Lowering Romance

Nasalized close back rounded vowel to Diphthong uo

Diphthongization of the nasalized high back vowel ũ into the rising diphthong uo, typical of Romance dialectal variation.

Phonetic Effects

Diphthongization, Lowering

Language Examples

Romance Dialects Romance

ũ→uo— Spontaneous breaking of nasal back vowels.

Related Transformations

More Nasalization Shifts

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

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