Category talk:Sound laws

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Indo-European sub-category?

It seems like a lot of the sound laws here belong to Indo-European languages.

On the one hand, it would probably make sense to group them together, so that they're easier to categorize.

On the other hand, maybe it'd take away from being able to accidentally stumble on one of PIE's laws. Furthermore, at what point we say that the sound changers are no longer PIE, but Proto-Baltic or Proto-Balto-Slavic or Proto-Centum etc.? When do we distinguish between the earliest changes, and those of sub-branches?

What about the English section? Is it part of the IE ones? Should we lump all the IE languages together, or keep them apart as possible (see prev. paragraph, 2nd sentence)? Shibolet Nehrd (talk) 04:58, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]