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  2. Proto-Indo-European phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) has been reconstructed by linguists, based on the similarities and differences among current and extinct Indo-European languages. Because PIE was not written, linguists must rely on the evidence of its earliest attested descendants, such as Hittite , Sanskrit , Ancient Greek , and Latin ...

  3. Indo-European sound laws - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the Proto-Indo-European consonants and their reflexes in selected Indo-European daughter languages. Background and further details can be found in various related articles, including Proto-Indo-European phonology, Centum and satem languages, the articles on the various sound laws referred to in the introduction, and the articles on the various IE proto-languages ...

  4. Category:Indo-European phonologies - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Indo-European phonologies" ... Albanian phonology; P. Proto-Indo-European phonology; V.

  5. Szemerényi's law - Wikipedia

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    Szemerényi's law (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsɛmɛreːɲi]) is both a sound change and a synchronic phonological rule that operated during an early stage of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). Though its effects are evident in many reconstructed as well as attested forms, it did not operate in late PIE, having become morphologized (with ...

  6. Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. [1] No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages.

  7. Weise's law - Wikipedia

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    In historical linguistics, Weise's law describes the loss of palatal quality that some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). ). Specifically, when the palatovelar consonants *ḱ *ǵ *ǵʰ are followed by *r, they lose their palatal quality, leading to a loss in distinction between them and the plain velar consonants *k

  8. Miller's law (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Miller's law proposes that an aspirated consonant in Proto-Greek became deaspirated after a nasal consonant ending an accented vowel. It was identified by Indo-Europeanist D. Gary Miller. It was identified by Indo-Europeanist D. Gary Miller.

  9. Siebs's law - Wikipedia

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    Siebs's law (/ ˈ z iː p s / ZEEPS) is a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) phonological rule named after the German linguist Theodor Siebs.According to this law, if an s-mobile is added to a root that starts with a voiced or aspirated stop, that stop is allophonically devoiced.