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[ʒ]→[dʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Voiced postalveolar fricative to Voiced postalveolar affricate

The shift from the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ] (zh) to the voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ] (j) is a process of fortition, specifically affrication. This change involves adding a stop onset to the fricative, frequently occurring during loanword adaptation or as a stage in glide strengthening.

Phonetic Effects

Fortition, Affrication

Language Examples

English (Loanword Adaptation) Germanic

garage [ʒ]→[ɡəˈrɑːdʒ]— Hypercorrection/adaptation where speakers replace the non-native word-final [ʒ] with the native affricate [dʒ].

Latin to Italian Romance

iūdicium [j]→giudizio [dʒ]— Historical glide strengthening where Latin /j/ often passed through a fricative stage [ʒ] before becoming the affricate [dʒ].

Related Transformations

Inverse: Deaffrication

More Romance Shifts

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

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