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What if the Japanese ki becomes chi and hi becomes shi, this did happen in some dialects in Japanese, I even heard some japanese seiyuu try to pronounce ki as chi like in Okinawan to sound tough like Kimono is pronounced as Chimono while I heard that some people in the suburbs or kyoto and tokyo pronouce hi as shi or hy- as sh as well as in Tohoku like hyaku is pronounced as shaku so the change hi>shi or hy>sh is close to be standardized more than ki>chi and ky>ch, this would mess up the japanese kana as the unvoiced hi/bi and ki/gi syllable in kana would get obsolete, but really how would this mess up the japanese language
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