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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
{{PAGENAME}} is a satem language, which means that the original PIE palatovelars are fronted to alveolar. It also underwent a sound shift similar to Grimm's law: | {{PAGENAME}} is a satem language, which means that the original PIE palatovelars are fronted to alveolar and labiovelars get delabialized. It also underwent a sound shift similar to Grimm's law: | ||
* PIE voiceless stops -> voiceless fricatives | * PIE voiceless stops -> voiceless fricatives | ||
* PIE "plain voiced"/glottalic stops -> voiceless stops | * PIE "plain voiced"/glottalic stops -> voiceless stops | ||
* PIE "voiced aspirates" -> voiced stops | * PIE "voiced aspirates" -> voiced stops | ||
Unlike in Proto-Germanic, though, there is no Verner's law in Proto-Nithish. | Voiced stops have fricative allophones as in Spanish and Proto-Germanic. | ||
Unlike in Proto-Germanic, though, there is no Verner's law in Proto-Nithish. However, there is Grassmann's law which applies to original PIE voiceless stops; if a root has two voiceless stops, only the second gets Grimmified: *peth2-yeti -> ''peþjeþi'' "it flies" | |||
{{PAGENAME}} doesn't have a broad/slender contrast in consonants unlike its descendant [[Nithish]]. | {{PAGENAME}} doesn't have a broad/slender contrast in consonants unlike its descendant [[Nithish]]. | ||