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(Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

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centum

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/ˈkɛntəm/

Adjective

Indo-European-studies not-comparable

(Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

Japanese Meaning

インド・ヨーロッパ語族の研究において、原始インド・ヨーロッパ語の口蓋軟口蓋音からシビラント音が生じなかった言語群、すなわちcentum言語を指す。

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The centum dialect preserved the original palatovelar–velar contrast and thus provides crucial evidence for Indo‑European phonological reconstruction.

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原始インド・ヨーロッパ語の軟口蓋化破裂音系列からシビラントを生じさせなかったインド・ヨーロッパ語方言は、元の軟口蓋と軟口蓋化音の対立を保持しており、音韻復元の重要な証拠を提供する。

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(Indo-European studies) Referring to an Indo-European language that did not produce sibilants from a series of Proto-Indo-European palatovelar stops.

Table 10.1 shows the relative chronology of centum and satem entries to the west. Along each trajectory, centum languages precede satem languages, and the frontier languages, thos most clearly showing peripheral type shift, are centum.

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