spirantization

Foreign words are not always subject to the rules for spirantization.

Tamazight itself has a relatively large degree of internal diversity, including whether spirantization occurs.

Modern Hebrew shows a limited set of mutation alternations, involving spirantization only.

Some transliteration schemes find its inclusion necessary for showing spirantization (see below) or for historical reasons.

Here the alternation involves spirantization and palatalization:

Spirantization and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in Bantu.

Vowel systems and spirantization in S.W. Tanzania.

A dagesh indicates a consonant is geminate or unspirantized, while a raphe indicates spirantization.

The mutations are Spirantization, Gemination, and Prenasalization:

Begedkefet spirantization developed sometime during the lifetime of Biblical Hebrew under the influence of Aramaic.

In the East Syriac variant of the alphabet, spirantization marks are usually omitted when they interfere with vowel marks.

The name is also given to similar cases of spirantization of post-vocalic plosives in other languages, for instance, in the Berber language of Djerba.

For native words, spirantization depends on the letter's position within a word or syllable, location relative to other consonants and vowels, gemination, etymology, and other factors.

Ayacucho Quechua lacks the characteristic spirantization of stops at the end of a syllable; compare Cusco ñuqanchis with Ayacucho ñuqanchik "we/you and I".

A notable characteristic distinguishing it from Biblical Hebrew of the classical period is the spirantization of post-vocalic stops (b, g, d, p, t, k), which it has in common with Aramaic.

With Sturtevant, he laid the foundations to what later became the Goetze-Wittmann law (spirantization of palatal stops before u as the focal origin for the diffusion of the Centum-Satem isogloss).

Begadkefat (also begadkephat, begedkefet) is the name given to a phenomenon of spirantization affecting most plosive consonants of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic when they are preceded by a vowel and not geminated.

Phenomena such as the spirantization of medial obstruents, which resulted in a major historical change in the sound inventory of Vietnamese, are also part of the broad set of changes-originating in monosyllabicization-that swept through East/Southeast Asia.