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Episode 5: Centum, Satem and the Letter C

The History of English Podcast

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Introduction

In this episode, i focus on one specific set of sound changes which early linguists used to classify the indo european languages. As you'll see, some of the very same sound shifts that were identified within the original Indo-Germanic language are still reflected in certain aspects of modern english. And specifically, we can see the same type of sound shift in the modern English letter c, which is used to identify both the k sound and the s sound.

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