The Universal Atlas of Phonetic Evolution
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Voiced postalveolar fricative to Voiced alveolar flap

The transformation from a voiced palato-alveolar fricative to an alveolar flap is a type of rhotacism or lenition, where a sibilant weakens into a rhotic liquid, often occurring in intervocalic or coda positions.

Phonetic Effects

Rhotacism, Lenition, Fronting

Language Examples

Related Transformations

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