Ts–ch merger
(Redirected from
Chokanye
)In
/tʃ/.In Russian, it is the merger of the consonants rendered by letters Che and Tse. If the shift is towards Tse, it is called tsokanye (Russian: цоканье); the shift towards Che is called chokanye (Russian: чоканье).[1][2]
It is a regular
Upper Sorbian, as seen in the difference between Lower Sorbian cas and Upper Sorbian čas, both meaning "time".[3]
In
mazurzenie (mazuration), present in many Polish dialects but named after the Masovian dialect.[4]
It also occurs in a few areas of the Chakavian dialect of
tsakavism
.
The Northeastern Yiddish includes the /tʃ/ → /ts/ merger.
Greek-speaking people may merge /t͡ʃ/ (and /d͡ʒ/) into /t͡s/ (and /d͡z/) when speaking foreign languages that contain those sounds.
References
- ^ "Карта. Различение или совпадение согласных на месте ч и ц" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2014-03-23.
- ^ "Легенда карты. Различение или совпадение согласных на месте ч и ц" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2014-03-23.
- ^ Stieber, Zdzisław (1965). Zarys dialektologii języków zachodnio-słowiańskich (in Polish). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. pp. 16–17.
- ISBN 90-272-4591-6, p. 128
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