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Grimm’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

October 21st, 2009

The following changes are observed and predicted in Proto-Indo-European sounds:

voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives
voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives
voiced stops become voiceless stops.

Check the article below for examples. What does this mean for the English language? If these changes continue to progress, will we lose all of the sounds found frequently in Russian and High German?

Grimm’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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