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Proto-Slavic had acquired front vowels, ē (possibly an open front vowel [æː]) and sometimes ī, from the earlier change of *ai to *ē/ī. This resulted in new sequences of velars followed by front vowels, where they did not occur before.
Religion and mythology. Indo-European studies. v. t. e. Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium BC through the 6th century AD. [1]
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Mar 6, 2021 · In other words, ę and ǫ are the only nasalized vowels that survived the various vowel mergers in Proto-Slavic; sequences -iN, -uN, and -aN existed in Proto-Balti-Slavic and nasalized early in Proto-Slavic, so it's really just an accident of fate that we don't end up with į, ų, and ą alongside ę and ǫ.
Ь and ъ were alway distinguished in Protoslavic, long before Slavs came into contact with Uralic peoples. The reduced vowel ь developed from the PIE short *ĭ, the reduced vowel ъ developed from the PIE short *ŭ, Old Church Slavonic вьдова, Russian вдова, Old Indo-Aryan vidhavā, Latvian vĭdua.
after the high front vowels *i, *ī, *į unless followed by a consonant or by one of the high back vowels *u, *ū, *ų. The clusters *sk and *zg became ść and źʒ́ before the new front vowels. This development restored the opposition between *ē and *ā after palatals, e.g. vьsь ‘all’, f.sg./n.pl. vьsa, gen.loc.pl. vьsěxъ. C5.
In Proto-Balto-Slavic, short *o and *a were merged. A separate reflex of the original *o or *a is, however, argued to have been retained in some environments as a lengthened vowel because of Winter's law. Subsequently, Early Proto-Slavic merged *ō and *ā, which were retained in the Baltic languages.
Jan 30, 2015 · Where do they come from? These alternations are a result of a process known as palatalization.* In OCS, there was a phonotactic rule (i.e., a type of rule that governs what sounds can or cannot appear next to what other sounds) that prevented velar sounds from occurring before front vowels.
