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Proto-Indo-Iranian language
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'''Proto-Indo-Iranian''', the
Indo-European language spoken by the
Indo-Iranians in the late
3rd millennium BC was a
Satem language likely removed less than a millennium from the late
Proto-Indo-European language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from the
Vedic Sanskrit of the
Rigveda. It is the ancestor of the
Indo-Aryan languages, the
Iranian languages and the
Nuristani languages. The main phonological change separating Proto-Indo-Iranian from Proto-Indo-European is the collapse of the
ablauting vowels ''*e, *o, *a'' into a single vowel, Proto-Indo-Iranian ''*a'' (but see
Brugmann's law).
Grassmann's law,
Bartholomae's law, and the "RUKI rule" (a rule changing {{IPA|/s/}} to {{IPA|/ʃ/}} after {{IPA|/r, u, k, i/}}) were also complete in Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Among the sound changes from Proto-Indo-Iranian to
Indo-Aryan languages Indo-Aryan is the loss of the voiced sibilant ''*z'', among those to
Iranian languages Iranian is the de-aspiration of the PIE voiced aspirates.
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Category:Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian
Category:Proto-languages
