Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

centum language

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English

Syllables: cen-tum lan-guage
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

an Indo-European language that shows distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that shows a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds /k/ or /kʰ/ (‘kh’) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes.

Example Sentences

"The Centum languages show characteristic plain velars and labiovelars articulated at the back of the mouth in inherited Indo-European lexical items."

Questions

What does centum language mean?: an Indo-European language that shows distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that shows a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds /k/ or /kʰ/ (‘kh’) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes.

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