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Consonants Sino-Tibetan Elision

Voiced retroflex fricative to Empty sound / Zero

The voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] can be elided ([∅]) in colloquial Mandarin speech, particularly in the suffix '-r'.

Phonetic Effects

Elision, Deletion

Language Examples

Mandarin Sino-Tibetan

[ʐ]→[∅]— Often seen in the loss of the retroflex 'r' in rapid colloquial speech.

Related Transformations

More Elision Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [∅] — Elision [d] → [t] — Voice Loss

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