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+===Features===
+*PIE aspirated stops became plain voiced stops.
+*PIE voiced stops were devoiced in some conditions and preserved as voiced in others.
+*PIE voiceless stops were mostly preserved, but were aspirated in some conditions.
+*Like Greek, voiced and aspirated stops were later fricatized.
+*Initial ''w-'' preserved (as ''v-'') except before ''o''.
+**New ''w'' also became ''v''.
+*Early palatalization of velars before front vowels to alveolar fricatives.
+*All labiovelars became plain velars.
+*Second palatalization of velars before front vowels to postalveolars.
+*Third palatalization of velars adjacent to front vowels to palatals.
+*In stop clusters (and some other consonant clusters), the second consonant becomes a fricative.
+*Assimilation of ''s'' to following consonant in consonant clusters (except word-initially?).
 ==Phonology==