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Germanic sound shifts are the phonological developments (sound changes) from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) to Proto-Germanic, in Proto-Germanic itself, and in various Germanic subfamilies and languages.

PIE to Proto-Germanic

In Proto-Germanic

Germanic a-mutation

Germanic subfamilies and languages

Germanic umlaut (all of the early languages except for Gothic)
Great Vowel Shift (English)
High German consonant shift
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law (attested in Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon)
West Germanic gemination

See also

Topics referred to by the same term

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