Sheismo
Yeísmo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝeˈismo]; literally "Y-ism") is a distinctive feature of many dialects of the Spanish language, characterized by the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme /ʎ/ (written ⟨ll⟩) and its merger into the voiced palatal fricative phoneme /ʝ/ (written ⟨y⟩). It is an example of delateralization.
In other words, ⟨ll⟩ and ⟨y⟩ represent the same sound, [ʝ], when yeísmo is present. The term yeísmo comes from one of the Spanish names for the letter ⟨y⟩ (ye). Over 90% of Spanish speakers exhibit this phonemic merger. Similar mergers exist in other languages, such as French, Italian, Hungarian, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese or Galician, with different social considerations.
Occasionally, the term lleísmo (pronounced [ʎeˈismo]) has been used to refer to the maintenance of the phonemic distinction (lack of a merger) between /ʝ/ and /ʎ/. In some varieties of Murcian Spanish, where the sounds merge to [ʎ] rather than typical [ʝ], this feature has been called ultralleísmo.
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