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delabialization

[ dee-ley-bee-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]

noun

, Phonetics.
  1. the result or process of delabializing.
  2. the historical progression in which labial sounds delabialize, as the kw- sound in Latin words starting with quin- “five” becoming a k- sound as in Spanish quince “fifteen.”


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