21. Some dialects of assimilation, lenition is one of the primary sources of phonological change of languages. 22. Lenition includes the loss of a feature, such as ejective articulation is lost : or >.23. This use of digraphs with to indicate lenition is distinct from the other uses which derive from Latin. 24. It also exhibits extensive lenition of plosives, which is noticeably more common than in the neighboring languages. 25. Adding to this is the fact that the f-to-h lenition is not peculiar to Spanish. 26. When used as prepositions, more along the lines of what English does, certain of them trigger lenition . 27. The stages of the lenition as well as which dialects they occur in can be seen in the table below. 28. According to some analyses, the lenition of the palatalized consonant is still a part of the palatalization process itself. 29. Synchronic lenition in Scottish Gaelic affects almost all consonants ( except which has lost its lenited counterpart in most areas ). 30. Both trigger lenition ( indicated by the " + " signs rather than the hyphens that usually mark prefix boundaries ).
