What’s lenition?

Lenition weakens consonant sounds within a word to reduce airflow interruptions during speech. There are four types: spirantization, fricative opening, debuccalization, and deletion. Lenited consonants are affected by adjacent letters and can be synchronic or diachronic. Examples include Irish and Welsh syntax and German’s Grim’s Law. Lenition is a consonant mutation that weakens the sound […]

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