lenition

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lenition (countable and uncountable, plural lenitions)

(phonetics, phonology) A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
Antonym: fortition
Coordinate term: assimilation

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All of these languages do have the "northwest" characteristics of lenition and loss of gemination. Source: Internet

Brythonic Languages Welsh marks the vocative by lenition of the initial consonant of the word, with no obligatory particle. Source: Internet

Cornish has retained the vocative case, with the particle the same as in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, a, which causes the second state mutation (lenition) in the following word. Source: Internet

Lenition Stop consonants shifted by lenition in Vulgar Latin. Source: Internet

Manx has an optional process of lenition of plosives between vowels, whereby voiced plosives and voiceless fricatives become voiced fricatives and voiceless plosives become either voiced plosives or voiced fricatives. Source: Internet

The principal marker is the vocative particle a, which causes lenition of the initial letter. Source: Internet

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