KnowraLaryngeal theoryLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Laryngeal theory, each with the reason it gives.All 11Broader topic 1Related 9Compared with 1Indo-European languagesRelated: It explains vowel patterns that older reconstructions left unexplained.Proto-Indo-European languageRelated: It explains vowel differences and consonant patterns that simpler reconstructions could not account for.Hittite languageRelated: Hittite evidence strengthened the case for consonants previously reconstructed from indirect evidence.Indo-European linguisticsRelated: It explains vowel patterns and consonant traces that older reconstructions left unexplained.Indo-European ablautRelated: Laryngeals help explain long vowels and patterns associated with reconstructed ablaut grades.Indo-European sound lawsRelated: Sound correspondences across branches provide key evidence for reconstructed laryngeals.Linguistic reconstructionRelated: These proposed sounds gained strong support when Hittite supplied previously missing comparative evidence.Anatolian languagesRelated: Hittite evidence helped confirm consonants earlier reconstructed from indirect vowel effects.Lachmann's lawRelated: Proposed accounts of Lachmann's law consider how inherited consonants and their loss shaped Latin forms.