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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Sound shift in the Germanic languages}}<br /> {{Contains special characters|PIE}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Fortunatov&#039;s law&#039;&#039;&#039; is the observation, in the development of [[Sanskrit]] from [[proto-Indo-European]], that when &#039;&#039;*l&#039;&#039; is followed by a dental consonant, the dental becomes retroflex and the &#039;&#039;*l&#039;&#039; is deleted, eg. PIE &#039;&#039;*bʰelsos&#039;&#039; &gt; Sanskrit &#039;&#039;bhā́ṣā&#039;&#039; (compare Lithuanian &#039;&#039;bal̃sas&#039;&#039;).&lt;ref&gt;https://www.jstor.org/stable/612903&lt;/ref&gt; This law is not uniform.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Glottalic theory]]<br /> * [[Grassmann&#039;s law]]<br /> * [[Stigler&#039;s law of eponymy]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Indo-European linguistics]]<br /> [[Category:Sound laws]]</div>

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