Meaning Of The Word Consonant shift

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What's The Definition Of Consonant shift?

consonant shift in British English
a sound change or series of connected sound changes in the consonants of a language or family of languages, as a series of changes in the Indo-European stops that set Germanic apart from other Indo-European languages, or of changes in the Germanic stops t
noun: a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
noun: a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language

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