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[ʐ]→[ʒ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Merger

Voiced retroflex fricative to Voiced postalveolar fricative

The voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] often merges with the voiced postalveolar fricative [ʒ] in Mandarin dialectal variation.

Phonetic Effects

Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Mandarin (Dialectal) Sino-Tibetan

[ʐ]→[ʒ]— Retroflexion is often weakened or lost in Southern dialects.

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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