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[ʐ]→[l]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Consonants Liquid Shift Lateralization Sino-Tibetan

Voiced retroflex fricative to Alveolar lateral approximant

The voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] (often 'r' in Pinyin) can shift to the lateral [l] in certain Southern Mandarin variants, especially in Taiwan.

Phonetic Effects

Liquid Shift, Lateralization, De-retroflexion

Language Examples

Taiwanese Mandarin Sino-Tibetan

rè [ʐɤ]→lè [lɤ]— The 'r' to 'l' shift is a noted feature of Taiwanese accent variants.

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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