- came to be
written ⟨wh⟩ (whole, ****).
Later in many
dialects /hw/ was
delabialized to /h/ in the same environment,
regardless of
whether the
historic pronunciation...
- well. In this case the
entire clusters [uŋʷxʷ], [uŋʷkʷ] and [uŋʷɡʷ] are
delabialized to [uŋx], [uŋk] and [uŋɡ]. (Early) Proto-Germanic /ɡʷ/ knew at least...
- ǫ́
merged as /ɔː/;
later on at the
beginning of the 14th century,
delabialization took place: y, øy, au > /i, ɔi, ɛi/; í and ý
merged in
addition to...
- the
bilabial fricative /β/. The
cluster /nkt/
reduced to [ŋt]. /kw/
delabialized to /k/
before back vowels. /ks/
before or
after a consonant, or at the...
- dialects.
Changes towards the
modern languages include:
Tundra Nenets:
Delabialization of /wʲ/ → /j/
Lenition of
initial /k/ → /x/
Simplification of /ʔk/...
- Germanic.
Examples of West
Germanic phonological particularities are: The
delabialization of all
labiovelar consonants except word-initially.
Change of *-zw-...
- the
distinction between /s ʃ/,
especially among monolingual speakers Delabialization of
labialized velars (/kʷ gʷ xʷ ɣʷ/), e.g. nəkkʷni/nukkni > nəkkni...
-
yielded Gr**** ἀμνός ámnos "lamb". In Latin, PIE
labiovelars were
regularly delabialized before another consonant:
relictus "left behind" < *likʷ-to- (cf. relinquō...
- /februˈaːrius/ > /feˈβrwaːrjus/ > /feˈβraːrjus/. Similarly, /kʷ/ is
delabialized to /k/
before back vowels,
whether they are
stressed or not. Cf. /ˈkʷoːmodo...
-
original Common Turkic form, the most
prolific being: High
vowels were
delabialized in non-initial syllables: CT *tütün > *tütin > WYu tuʰtïn "to smoke"...
