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[ʒ]→[ʐ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Consonants Merger Retroflexion Sino-Tibetan

Voiced postalveolar fricative to Voiced retroflex fricative

The voiced palato-alveolar fricative [ʒ] merges into the voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] in the phonetic evolution of the Mandarin sound system.

Phonetic Effects

Merger, Retroflexion, Backing

Language Examples

Mandarin dialects Sino-Tibetan

[ʒ]→[ʐ]— Historical shift of voiced palatal fricatives towards retroflexion.

Related Transformations

More Consonants Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [g] → [k] — Voice Loss

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