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You have many options available in the treatment of the vowels and consonants; already in Proto-Indo-European we discern a trend towards either engaging in af/fricativisation or not of the 'palatovelars'. This important isogloss divides Indo-European into two broad swaths: Centum and Satem. Cf. | You have many options available in the treatment of the vowels and consonants; already in Proto-Indo-European we discern a trend towards either engaging in af/fricativisation or not of the 'palatovelars'. This important isogloss divides Indo-European into two broad swaths: Centum and Satem. Cf. reconstructed PIE [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ḱm̥tóm#Proto-Indo-European|*(d)ḱm̥tóm]] and its descendants [[wikt:centum#Latin|centum (Latin)]] & [[wikt:शत#Sanskrit|śatá (Sanskrit)]]. | ||
===Melting morphology=== | ===Melting morphology=== |