reduced vowel
linguistics
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Slavic languages
- In Slavic languages: The loss of reduced vowels
The next period in Slavic linguistic history began with the loss of the “reduced” vowels ŭ and ĭ, called yers, that resulted from Indo-European short u and i; that loss caused a wide-ranging change in many words and forms. Although that process was…
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