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    historical linguistics, the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (also called the Anglo-Frisian or North Sea Germanic nasal spirant law) is a description of a phonological...
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    (Ingvaeonic A). Linguistic evidence for Ingvaeonic B observed in Old Frisian, Old English and Old Saxon is as follows: The so-called Ingvaeonic nasal spirant...
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    Germanic languages due to several sound changes: besides the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law, which is present in Low German as well, Anglo-Frisian brightening...
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    partially shares Anglo-Frisian's (Old Frisian, Old English) Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law which sets it apart from Low Franconian and Irminonic languages...
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  • five, mouth, us versus German fünf, Mund, uns. For detail see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. The Anglo-Frisian languages underwent a sound change in their...
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    spelling and pronunciation Grimm's law High German consonant shift History of English Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law Phonological history of English vowels...
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  • "us") in colloquial French (first-person plural pronoun, see Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law), from Old French (h)om, a reduced form of homme "man", was a...
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    The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English, the Low German languages, and the Frisian languages;...
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  • Gothic) Great Vowel Shift (English) High German consonant shift Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested in Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon) West Germanic...
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    are only partially preserved in Low German, for instance the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (some dialects have us, os for "us" whereas others have uns,...
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