Slavic phonological features

sound change that either results in a palatal or palatalized consonant or a front vowel

Akanye ( ) or akanje ( ; ) is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes or are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction.

phonological law in some Indo-European branches

first palatalization affecting the Slavic languages

second palatalization affecting the Slavic languages

Slavic rhythmic law dealing with the reduced vowels (yers)

phonological feature

proposed sound change in Balto-Slavic languages

thumb|x300px|Map of Polish dialects. Dialects with are shown in . Jabłonkowanie () or siakanie () is a regional phonological feature of the Polish language. It consists of the merger of the series of retroflex sibilants and palatal sibilants into a phonetically-intermediate series , , , (sometimes written ).

Balto-Slavic accent-retraction sound change

Mazurzenie () or mazuration is the replacement or merger of Polish's series of postalveolar fricatives and affricates (written ) into the dentialveolar series (written ). This merger is present in many dialects, but is named for the Masovian dialect.

Common Slavic changes to liquid consonants in syllable codas