Talk:Centum-Satem isogloss
... and plain velars are merged. Keeping the labiovelars distinct is not a necessary condition for being called Centum, as merging the labiovelars with the plain velars could have happened ... th, dh, while the plain velars and labiovelars largely merged. Beekes says the evidence that ... palatalize to s before front vowels while labiovelars did is "too meagre". So the strongest ... is missing. I argue that evidence of labiovelars but not palatovelars at some stage ...
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Centum-Satem isogloss
... consonant rows reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European, * (labiovelars), * (velars), and *; (palatovelars). The terms come from ... evidence that the plain velars and the labiovelars were not completely merged in Proto-Albanian ... the three dorsal rows reconstructed for PIE, *, *, * (labiovelars), *, *, * (velars), and *, *, *; (palatovelars) in the daughter languages ... Badke in 1890 he now denotes the labiovelars as , , , (also intrducing voiceless aspirates). The presence ... e. the collapse of the velars with labiovelars rather than with the palatovelars) rests ...
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Talk:Indo-European languages/Archive 1
... of the palatals and the collapse of labiovelars and velars are causally related, but must ... it is methodologically sound to regard early labiovelars as biphonematic. i.e. Anatolian ku is ... to Occam's razor. Satem loss of labiovelars is then essentially a Digammaschwund, related to ... delabialization and palatalization. Conversely, Centum development of labiovelars as single phonemes is related to a ... just mean assibilation, it means collapse of labiovelars and velars, but differentiation of velars ...
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Proto-Indo-European language
... traditional transcription) CONSONANTS Labials Coronals Palatovelars Velars Labiovelars Laryngeals Voiceless stops Voiced stops Aspirated stops ... velars (, ) in Proto-Indo-European. Pure velars, . Labiovelars, (also transcribed ). Raised stands for labialization, or ... the satem group of languages merged the labiovelars with the plain velars . The existence of ... as phonemes separate from the palatovelars and labiovelars has been disputed. In most circumstances they ... they treated plain velars differently from the labiovelars in at least some circumstances, as ...
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Proto-Greek language
... example by the (post-Mycenaean) change of labiovelars into dentals before e (e.g. k ... Mycenaean and assumes Proto-Greek loss of labiovelars and syllabic resonants, among other things. Thus ...
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Ge'ez language
... p] and [f]. Ge'ez has phonologized labiovelars, descending from Proto-Semitic biphonemes. Ge'ez ... ከ ḳ (q, k') ቀ g ገ Labiovelars k w ኰ ḳ w (q w ...
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Q-celtic languages   (translated from German)
... Keltiberi Also that Gallische remainder of the Labiovelars retains /k w /, approximately in the name ...
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Proto-Ionians
... properties of Homeric Greek, including loss of labiovelars and even of digamma (both are preserved ...
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Talk:Ge'ez alphabet
... It then goes on to describe the labiovelars and palatals.] D&B is of uneven ...
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Indo-European sound laws
... of labials. 14 In the neighbourhood of labiovelars. See also Centum-Satem isogloss Balto-Slavic ...
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