[v]→[m]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Nasalization Labial-Shift Nakh-Dagestani Germanic

Voiced labiodental fricative to Bilabial nasal

The shift from the voiced labiodental fricative [v] to the bilabial nasal [m] is a form of nasalization and substitution grounded in their shared labial place of articulation, commonly observed in specific language families and child language acquisition.

Phonetic Effects

Nasalization, Labial Substitution, Consonantalization Shift

Language Examples

Nakh-Dagestani (General) Nakh-Dagestani

[v/b]→[m]— Part of the broader labial sound shifts and correspondences between fricatives, stops, and nasals in Nakh dialects.

Child English Germanic

very [ˈvɛri]→[ˈmɛri]— Occasional nasal substitution in early phonological development where labial sounds are generalized.

Related Transformations

Stopping Inverse: Denasalization

More Nasalization Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

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