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[ʐ]→[z]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Merger

Voiced retroflex fricative to Voiced alveolar fricative

The voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] merges with the voiced alveolar fricative [z] in certain historical or dialectal stages.

Phonetic Effects

Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Mandarin Dialects Sino-Tibetan

[ʐ]→[z]— A stage in the de-retroflexion of the series.

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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