Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law

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historical linguistic phenomenon phonological law sound change

Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law is a historical sound change in early Germanic languages that caused the loss of nasal consonants before fricatives, leaving characteristic vowel changes in Anglo-Frisian and related dialects.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Anglo-Frisian vowel systems	1
Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule	1

Statements (33)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical linguistic phenomenon ⓘ phonological law ⓘ sound change ⓘ
affects	fricatives ⓘ nasal consonants ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ surface form: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule
appliesTo	Anglo-Frisian dialects ⓘ surface form: Ingvaeonic languages Old English ⓘ Old Frisian ⓘ Old Saxon ⓘ
contrastWith	Grimm's law ⓘ High German consonant shift ⓘ Verner's law ⓘ
environment	nasal consonant before fricative ⓘ
evidenceFrom	cognate sets across Germanic languages ⓘ comparative reconstruction of Germanic ⓘ
languageFamilyContext	Germanic languages ⓘ
leavesTraceIn	Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Anglo-Frisian vowel systems Old English orthography ⓘ Old Frisian orthography ⓘ
namedAfter	Anglo-Frisian dialects ⓘ surface form: Ingvaeonic
notAppliesTo	all Germanic languages ⓘ
regionalAssociation	West Germanic languages ⓘ surface form: North Sea Germanic
result	compensatory vowel changes ⓘ lengthening of preceding vowel ⓘ loss of nasal consonant ⓘ nasalization of preceding vowel ⓘ
scope	clusters of nasal plus fricative ⓘ
studiedIn	Germanic linguistics ⓘ historical phonology ⓘ
timePeriod	early Middle Ages ⓘ early West Germanic ⓘ
typeOfChange	regressive assimilation ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law → alsoKnownAs → Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ingvaeonic nasal spirant rule

Anglo-Frisian dialects → hasLinguisticFeature → Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ

Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law → leavesTraceIn → Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anglo-Frisian vowel systems

Old Frisian → phonologicalFeature → Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ

Old Saxon → sharesSoundChange → Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ