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Palatalized consonants never developed in Southwest Slavic (modern Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian), and the merger of *ľ *ň *ř with *l *n *r did not happen before front vowels (although Serbian and Croatian later merged *ř with *r).
- 2nd m. BCE – 6th c. CE
- Slavic languages
- Eastern Europe
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. Additionally, some new loanwords also had such sequences.
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Traditionally, such vowels are considered short in Proto-Slavic, and the long vowels that are found in the later dialects are regarded as Post-Common-Slavic developments. The various accent types of Proto-Slavic are indicated with different diacritical symbols. The following table helps map between the notational systems found in various sources.
- a̋
- â
- ã
- ȃ
Vowel IE/B-S Slavic; Short close front vowel (front yer) i: ĭ or ь: Short close back vowel (back yer) u: ŭ or ъ: Short open back vowel: a: o: Long close front vowel: ī: i: Long close back vowel: ū: y and u: Long open front vowel (yat) ē: ě: Long open back vowel: ā: a
The clusters ḱw, ǵw, x́w which had arisen before front vowels as a result of the second palatalization (6.6) shared the development of 7.3 in South and East Slavic, but were depalatalized in West Slavic. The clusters ḱn and ǵn preserved the palatalization in the nasal.16.
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Jan 30, 2015 · Although historically they were triggered by distinct subsets of front vowels, some of these distinctions have become obscured by later changes that affected the vowels. The First and Second Slavic Palatalizations applied in Proto-Slavic, resulting in changes to root consonants.
Other articles where Proto-Slavic language is discussed: Slavic languages: Proto-Balto-Slavic: Each branch of Slavic originally developed from Proto-Slavic, the ancestral parent language of the group, which in turn developed from an earlier language that was also the antecedent of the Proto-Baltic language. Both Slavic and Baltic share with the eastern Indo-European languages (called…
