Editing Consonant mutation (section)

=== Hebrew ===
Modern [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] shows a limited set of mutation alternations, involving [[spirantization]] only.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lewis |last=Glinert |title=The Grammar of Modern Hebrew |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1989}}</ref> The consonants affected may be stem-initial, stem-medial, or stem-final.

{| class="wikitable"
! Radical !! Spirantized
|-
| p || f
|-
| k || x
|-
| b || v
|}
{| style="white-space:nowrap; border-style:none" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
| colspan="3" |These alternations occur in [[verb]]s:
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|בּוֹא ← תָּבוֹא}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/'''b'''o/ → /taˈ'''v'''o/}}</span>
|("come" ([[Imperative mood|imperative]]) → "you will come"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|שָׁבַר ← נִשׁבַּר}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/ʃaˈ'''v'''aʁ/ → /niʃˈ'''b'''aʁ/}}</span>
|("broke" ([[Transitive verb|transitive]]) → "broke" ([[Intransitive verb|intransitive]]),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|כָּתַב ← יִכְתֹּב}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/'''k'''aˈtav/ → /ji'''χ'''ˈtov/}}</span>
|("he wrote" → "he will write"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|זָכַר ← יִזְכֹּר}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/zaˈ'''χ'''aʁ/ → /jizˈ'''k'''oʁ/}}</span>
|("he remembered" → "he will remember"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|פָּנִית ← לִפְנוֹת}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/'''p'''aˈnit/ → /li'''f'''ˈnot/}}</span>
|("you (''f.'') turned" → "to turn"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|שָׁפַטְתְּ ← לִשְׁפֹּט}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/ʃaˈ'''f'''atet/ → /liʃˈ'''p'''ot/}}</span>
|("you (''f.'') judged" → "to judge "),
|-
| colspan="3" |or in [[noun]]s:
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|ערב ← ערביים}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/ˈeʁe'''v'''/ → /aʁˈ'''b'''ajim/}}</span>
|("evening" → "twilight"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|מלך ← מלכה}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/ˈmele'''χ'''/ → /malˈ'''k'''a/}}</span>
|("king" → "queen"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|אלף ← אלפית}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/ˈele'''f'''/ → /alˈ'''p'''it/}}</span>
|("a thousand" → "a thousandth"),
|}
However, in Modern Hebrew, stop and fricative variants of {{Script/Hebrew|[[ב]]}}{{rtl}}, {{Script/Hebrew|[[כ]]}} and {{Script/Hebrew|[[פ]]}} are sometimes distinct phonemes:
{| style="white-space:nowrap; border-style:none" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|אִפֵּר – עִפֵר}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/iˈ'''p'''eʁ/}} – {{IPA|/iˈ'''f'''eʁ/}}</span>
|("applied make up" – "tipped ash"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|פִּסְפֵּס – פִסְפֵס}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/'''p'''isˈ'''p'''es/}} – {{IPA|/'''f'''isˈ'''f'''es/}}</span>
|("striped" – "missed"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|הִתְחַבֵּר – הִתְחַבֵר}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/hitχaˈ'''b'''eʁ/}} – {{IPA|/hitχaˈ'''v'''eʁ/}}</span>
|("connected" – "made friends (with)"),
|-
|{{•}}{{Script/Hebrew|הִשְׁתַּבֵּץ – הִשְׁתַּבֵץ}}
|<span style="margin-left:5px;margin-right:5px;background-color:#e7e7e7">{{IPA|/hiʃtaˈ'''b'''ets/}} – {{IPA|/hiʃtaˈ'''v'''ets/}}</span>
|("got integrated" – "was shocked"),
|}
For a more in depth discussion of this phenomenon, see [[Begadkefat]].