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an Indo-European language that shows distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that shows a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds /k/ or /kʰ/ (‘kh’) from Proto-Indo-Europe…
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- n. an Indo-European language that shows distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that shows a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds /k/ or /kʰ/ (‘kh’) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes.