A Refactoring of Spanish & Portuguese · companion data
Companion / Iberian / Part 6 / 6.6.4.2
Section 6.6.4.2

/b/ ⇒ /β/ ↔ /b/

Same correspondence in the Latin American edition: §6.6.4.2 /b/ ⇒ /β/ ↔ /b/

84 cognate pairs · click a row for its historical trace

CCAES IPASpanishPT IPAPortugueseEnglish
/ˈbar.ba.ɾa//ˈbaɾ.βa.ɾa/barbara/ˈbaɾ.bɐ.ɾɐ/barbarabarbarian
/ˈbaɾ.ba.ɾo//ˈbaɾ.βa.ɾo/bárbaro/ˈbaɾ.bɐ.ɾu/bárbarobarbarian
/ˈmɔr.bi.da//ˈmoɾ.βi.ða/mórbida/ˈmɔɾ.bi.dɐ/mórbidamorbid
/ˈmɔr.bi.do//ˈmoɾ.βi.ðo/mórbido/ˈmɔɾ.bi.du/mórbidomorbid
Every table here shows the full corpus behind a sound correspondence — the print book shows a curated handful. Forms are generated from the book’s Latin→Romance model; the CCA column is the reconstructed common ancestor.