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The Sounds of Pro-ethnic Indo-European

§  chief sounds which can be shown to have existed in words that descended from Indo-European into Latin are these:

Besides these there were the Non-vowel Sonants (r̥, l̥, m̥, n̥); the Semi-vowels, Consonantal i and u (i̯ and u̯); the Velar nasal ŋ, and the Palatal nasal n̑, all of which have been just described. Of the difference between the so-called “Pure Velars” and the other Velars something will be said in § 173.

Most of these sounds except the Aspirates (§§ 174 ff.) Rh