# Languages showing affricate-to-plosive fortition (especially diachronically) Tags: phonology, phonetics, historical-linguistics, linguistic-typology, sound-change - Score: 4 - Views: 531 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Pavel Jetušek (1012 rep) - Asked: 2015-08-23 - Site: linguistics ## Question It is well known that consonant lenition or weakening tends to be far more common cross-linguistically than the opposite process called fortition or strengthening. Now, some languages have been considered as having undergone the historical change of affricates to plosives. Here's a list of examples I've been able to collect so far: Proto-Samoyedic */t͡ʃ/ → Kamassian /t/ Proto-Yeniseian */t͡ʃ/ → Proto-Ket-Yugh */t/ Proto-Yeniseian */d͡ʒ/ → Proto-Ket-Yugh */d/ Thus, my question is: What other languages can be shown to have undergone similar affricate-to-plosive fortition? And, quite naturally, another related question arises here: Do the languages with affricate fortition cluster areally? At least, Yeniseian and Samoyedic have been neighbours for some time, and their proximity might explain why some of them share this peculiar change. Contrary to what some, though not all,