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Sound change and alternation
Metathesis
Quantitative metathesis
Lenition
Consonant gradation
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Assibilation
Spirantization
L-vocalization
Debuccalization
Fortition
Epenthesis
Prothesis
Paragoge
Unpacking
Vowel breaking
Elision
Apheresis
Syncope
Apocope
Haplology
Cluster reduction
Transphonologization
Compensatory lengthening
Nasalization
Tonogenesis
Floating tone
Assimilation
Fusion
Coarticulation
Palatalization
Velarization
Labialization
Final devoicing
Metaphony (vowel harmony, umlaut)
Consonant harmony
Dissimilation
Sandhi
Liaison, linking R
Consonant mutation
Tone sandhi
Vowel hiatus
Synalepha
Elision
Crasis
Synaeresis and diaeresis
Synizesis
Other types
Apophony
Affrication
Gemination
Clipping
Fronting
Raising
Betacism
Iotacism
Fusion
Merger
Compensatory lengthening
Monophthongization
Rhotacism
Rhinoglottophilia
Sulcalization
Shm-reduplication
Consonant mutation
Vowel shift
Chain shift
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Consonant mutation is change in a consonant in a word according to its morphological or syntactic environment.
Mutation occurs in languages around the world. A prototypical example of consonant mutation is the initial consonant mutation of all modern Celtic languages. Initial consonant mutation is also found in Indonesian or Malay, in Nivkh, in Southern Paiute and in several West African languages such as Fula. The Nilotic language Dholuo, spoken in Kenya, shows mutation of stem-final consonants, as does English to a small extent. Mutation of initial, medial and final consonants is found in Modern Hebrew. Also, Japanese exhibits word medial consonant mutation involving voicing, rendaku, in many compounds. Uralic languages like Finnish show consonant gradation, a type of consonant mutation.
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transcription delimiters. Consonantmutation is change in a consonant in a word according to its morphological or syntactic environment. Mutation occurs in languages...
completely. In some languages, lenition has been grammaticalized into a consonantmutation, which means it is no longer triggered by its phonological environment...
initial consonantmutations. These mutations affect the initial consonant of a word under specific morphological and syntactic conditions. The mutations are...
Senegambian languages are well known for their consonantmutation, a phenomenon in which the initial consonant of a word changes depending on its morphological...
of Sindarin on Literary Welsh, and Sindarin displays some of the consonantmutations that characterize the Celtic languages. The language was also influenced...
It does not reflect the spoken language presented here. Initial consonantmutation is a phenomenon common to all Insular Celtic languages, although there...
the second is unaffected. In Celtic languages, the consonantmutation sees the initial consonant of a word to change according to its morphological or...
grammar described on this article is for Literary Welsh. Initial consonantmutation is a phenomenon common to all Insular Celtic languages (there is no...
versions of other consonant sounds also exist but are much rarer than either nasal occlusives or nasal vowels. The Middle Chinese consonant 日 ([ȵʑ]; [ʐ] in...
suprafixes, superfixes, or simulfixes. Consonant alternation is commonly known as consonantmutation or consonant gradation. Bemba indicates causative verbs...
all modern Celtic languages, Breton is characterised by initial consonantmutations, which are changes to the initial sound of a word caused by certain...
language is initial consonantmutation between singular and plural forms of nouns and of verbs (except in Pular, no consonantmutation exists in verbs, only...
back mutation changed short front i, e, æ to short diphthongs spelled io, eo, ea before a back vowel in the next syllable if the intervening consonant was...
which effectively is fortition of fricative [s] to affricate [ts]. Consonantmutation Final-obstruent devoicing Grimm's law Historical linguistics Sesotho...
secondary articulation of consonants by which the back of the tongue is raised toward the velum during the articulation of the consonant. In the International...
sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The...
vowel harmony does not apply if consonantmutation to the verb root also applies, instead only the consonantmutation in the verb root applies (e.g. ngenzire...
see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Consonant gradation is a type of consonantmutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found in...
phonology, voicing (or sonorization) is a sound change where a voiceless consonant becomes voiced due to the influence of its phonological environment; shift...
of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. When two vowel sounds instead occur together as part of a single syllable...
phenomenon, called consonantmutation, is found in the Celtic languages like Irish and Welsh, whereby unwritten (but historical) final consonants affect the initial...
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