The laryngeal theory is a widely accepted scientific theory in historical linguistics positing that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language included a series of consonants that left no direct consonantal descendants in languages outside of the Anatolian branch. It was first proposed by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure in 1879 to explain apparent irregularities in morphophonological patterns in daughter languages.
The laryngeal theory is a widely accepted scientific theory in historical linguistics positing that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language included a series of consonants that left no direct consonantal descendants in languages outside of the Anatolian branch. It was first proposed by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure in 1879 to explain apparent irregularities in morphophonological patterns in daughter languages.
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