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 ==Soft mutation (''bucoscaso'')==
-The so-called soft mutation affects [[w:plosive consonant|plosive consonants]].
+The so-called ''soft mutation'' affects [[w:plosive consonant|plosive consonants]]. It is the result of plosives voicing between vowels or voiced consonants.
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-| g || h
+| g || h<ref>Superseded by the [[#hard g|hard ''g'']] mutation.</ref>
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 | gu || h/u
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 ==Nasal mutation (''esloñaloscaso'')==
+''Nasal'' or ''hard mutation'' is far less common than its soft counterpart. Celtic nasal endings <i title="Proto-Celtic-language text" lang="cel-pro">-om</i>, <i title="Proto-Celtic-language text" lang="cel-pro">-ām</i> evolved into nasalized vowels, which lost the nasalization in most environments. In those where it was kept, it mutated the following consonant, hence the name.
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+|-
+! scope="col" | Original || scope="col" | > || scope="col" | Mutated
+|-
+| b || rowspan="7" | > || m
+|-
+| d || n
+|-
+| g || c/qu
+|-
+| m || v
+|-
+|}
+===Environments===
+* After a genitive plural pronoun, i.e. ''{{term|asero}}'' ‘our’, ''{{term|suero}}'' ‘your’, and ''{{term|so}}'' ‘their’: ''{{term|duno|'''d'''uno}}'' → ''asero '''n'''uno''.
+* After the number seven: ''{{term|garo|'''g'''aro}}'' → ''seta '''c'''aro''.
+* After the preposition ''{{term|i}}'': ''{{term|mí|'''m'''í}}'' → ''i '''v'''í camerze''.
+==Marginal mutations==
+; Hard ''g'' {{anchor|hard g}}
+Outside soft and nasal mutations, the letter ''g'' shifts to ''c'' (before ''a'', ''o'', or ''u'') and ''qu'' (after ''e'' and ''i'') after a word ending in ''n'', namely the definite article ''{{term|en}}''.
+; ''M''-to-''b'' mutation
+While regarded as a kind of soft mutation, it is the only mutation in Modern Gallaecian that is not triggered by the preceding sounds. Instead, if a syllable starts with ''m'' and its coda or the onset of the following one is an ''n'', the former mutates into a ''b''.
+<center>'''''m'''ini-'' → ''saia '''b'''i<u>n</u>i'' ‘miniskirt’&nbsp;<ref>Only example available; does this count as a ''[[wikt:hapax legomenon|hapax legomenon]]''?</ref></center>
 ==Notes==