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Audio Etymologies of the Day
Central to the Proto-Indo-European vowel system is the pattern of vowel changes named "ablaut" by 19th c. German-speaking linguists, e.g.:
root: β*sβd βsit, settleβ
e-grade: *sed- > sit
o-grade: *sod- > sat
zero grade: *-sd-, in *ni-sd-o > nest
long e-grade: *se:d-iβ > seat
long o-grade: *so:d-o- > sootsometimes leading to differences between languages. Audio examples at
http://www.ancientsounds.net/ablaut.html#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? The next instalment of my sprawling web pages on this question focusses on fricatives and frictionless continants (basically, r and l):
https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants3.htmlAlways glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My next web page about this question, for the phonetics and philology nerds, focusses on the places of articulation of stops, and the nasals: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants2.html
Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
How do we "know" (infer) the pronunciation of words in Proto-Indo-European? My webpages on this question are starting to sprawl out of control, and unlike earlier posts on Mastodon they are unashamedly pretty technical. Here's the next instalment, for the phonetics nerds out there: https://www.ancientsounds.net/PIEconsonants.html
Always glad to receive corrections, requests for clarification etc.
#linguistics #philology #phonology #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean