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Proto-Indo European
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Attested parent language of members of the Indo-European language family, which spans Eastern and Western Europe and parts of Asia.
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Historical linguistics
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Study of how languages change over time.
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Comparative method
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Technique of linguistic analysis that compares lists of related words in a selection of languages to find cognates.
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Grimm's Law
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1. Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops change into voiceless fricatives.
2. Proto-Indo-European voiced stops become voiceless stops. 3. Proto-Indo-European voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives; ultimately, in most Germanic languages these voiced fricatives become voiced stops. The chain shift can be abstractly represented as: bʰ → b → p → f dʰ → d → t → θ gʰ → g → k → x gʷʰ → gʷ → kʷ → xʷ |
