spirant consonants
1Spirant — Spi rant, n. [L. spirans, antis, p. pr. of spirare to breathe. See {Spirit}.] (Phon.) A term used differently by different authorities; by some as equivalent to fricative, that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m,… …
2Germanic spirant law — In linguistics, the Germanic spirant law or Primärberührung is a specific historical instance of assimilation which occurred at an early stage in the history of the Germanic languages and is regarded by some as being early enough to fall into the …
3Indo-European languages — Family of languages with the greatest number of speakers, spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia. They are descended from a single unrecorded language believed to have been spoken… …
4Guttural — is a term used to describe any of several speech sounds whose primary place of articulation is near the back of the oral cavity. In some definitions this is restricted to pharyngeal consonants, but in others includes some but not all velar and… …
5Indo-Hittite — In Indo European linguistics, the term Indo Hittite (also Indo Anatolian) refers to Sturtevant s 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages may have split off the Proto Indo European language considerably earlier than the separation of the… …
6Proto-Germanic language — Proto Germanic Spoken in Northern Europe Extinct evolved into Proto Norse, Gothic, Frankish and Ingvaeonic by the 4th century Language family Indo European …
7HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …
8Spanish Language and Literature — • As a medium of literary expression Spanish asserted itself first in the twelfth century: it had been six or seven centuries in the process of evolution out of Latin Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Spanish Language and Literature …
9Chiwere language — Chiwere Báxoje Jíwere Ñútˀachi Spoken in United States Region Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas Native speakers Uncertain but fewer than 40 (all semi fluent) …
10High German consonant shift — High German subdivides into Upper German (green) and Central German (blue), and is distinguished from Low German (yellow) and Dutch. The main isoglosses, the Benrath and Speyer lines, are marked in black. In historical linguistics, the High… …
