PIE phonology MOC

PIE velar labialisation

When adjacent to *w, *u, *o velars exhibited labialisation and were hence indistinguishable from the labiovelars. The convention is to transcribe both as velars since they are unmarked1.


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Footnotes

  1. 2017. From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, p. 20