A Refactoring of Spanish & Portuguese · companion data
Companion / Iberian / Part 6 / 6.6.7.1
Section 6.6.7.1

/ll/ ⇒ /ʎ/ ↔ /l/

Same correspondence in the Latin American edition: §6.6.7.2 /ll/ ⇒ /j/ ↔ /l/

29 cognate pairs · click a row for its historical trace

CCAES IPASpanishPT IPAPortugueseEnglish
/ka.ˈβal.la//ka.ˈβa.ʎa/caballa/kɐ.ˈva.lɐ/cavalamackerel
/ka.ˈβal.lo//ka.ˈβa.ʎo/caballo/kɐ.ˈva.lu/cavalohorse
/ˈpol.lo//ˈpo.ʎo/pollo/ˈpɔ.lu/polochicken ≠ young animal
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.