Talk:Indo-European sound laws

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I wonder if there isn't some better way of formatting this. For me, the vowel chart extends so far to the right I have to scroll the page horizontally to see it all. --Angr 15:29, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Hittite oi? 2 Tocharian fixes 3 Merging cells 4 *n > OCS n

[edit] Hittite oi?

Hittite doesn't use the /oi/, in fact, it doesn't use /o/ vowel at all.

- 82.139.47.117 21:03, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tocharian fixes

Tocharian only uses ś not š. I also added the retroflex s as an outcome for PIE *s- Imperial78

[edit] Merging cells

Does anyone else think that it would be more informativ if adjacent cells with identical information were merged? Everything with [b] for *b, say. A bit of column juggling could be combined with that, altho that might then risk listing unrelated developments (eg Armenian and Germanic [p] for the previous?) under a single entry, which would be counterproductiv. --Tropylium 13:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] *n > OCS n

The fact PIE *n has only developed into Old Church Slavonic n seems strange for me. Compare German kinder-like thing and Russian чадо /čado/ < /*kęd-o/ < /*kind-/ (an archaic word for a kid). So, after vowels and not before vowels it has disappeared causing a nasalisation of a previous vowel. Andrew Trevor (talk) 13:59, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, PIE *n only remains n before vowels in Slavic; otherwise it disappears with nasalization of the preceding vowel. I think PIE syllabic *n also became a nasalized vowel. —Angr ^{If you've written a quality article...} 17:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)