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The 45 pages that link to Sound change, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical linguisticsRelated: Regular sound changes create recurring correspondences that reveal language history.

• Indo-European languagesRelated: Regular sound changes reveal correspondences among branches descended from the ancestor.

• Language familyRelated: Regular sound changes explain why related languages can have different sounds in corresponding words.

• Language changeBroader topic: Regular sound shifts can reshape a language’s pronunciation and distinguish related languages.

• Language isolateRelated: Regular sound change allows historical comparisons to be tested rather than guessed.

• Proto-languageRelated: Regular sound changes explain how descendant forms diverged from their ancestor.

• CognateRelated: Regular sound changes explain why cognate words may no longer sound alike.

• Iranian languagesRelated: Patterns of sound change distinguish Iranian subgroups and connect them to earlier stages.

• EtymologyRelated: Regular sound changes explain why related words can look and sound different.

• Romance languagesRelated: Systematic sound changes helped turn Latin words into distinct forms across Romance languages.

• Proto-SlavicRelated: Regular sound changes connect reconstructed Proto-Slavic forms to their recorded descendants.

• Vowel harmonyRelated: Historical sound changes can create, reshape, or remove harmony patterns.

• Analogy (linguistics)Compared with: Sound change alters forms through phonetic pressures, unlike pattern-based analogical remodeling.

• Proto-GermanicRelated: Regular sound changes make correspondences among Germanic languages historically informative.

• William JonesRelated: Regular sound correspondences made language relationships testable beyond isolated word similarities.

• Indo-European studiesRelated: Regular sound changes explain how related languages developed distinct forms.

• NeogrammariansNarrower topic: Neogrammarians treated it as the central object of historical explanation.

• Laryngeal theoryNarrower topic: The theory explains how ancestral consonants could disappear while leaving systematic effects.

• Linguistic paleontologyRelated: Regular sound correspondences help establish that compared words are inherited cognates.

• Old FrenchRelated: Regular sound changes separated Old French from its Latin ancestry.

• Proto-Bantu languageRelated: Regular sound changes explain how Proto-Bantu sounds developed differently across descendants.

• Rasmus RaskRelated: Regular sound correspondences strengthened Rask’s arguments about language relationships.

• Ryukyuan languagesRelated: Regular sound changes help distinguish Ryukyuan branches and trace their shared ancestry.

• August SchleicherRelated: Regular sound correspondences helped establish the historical relationships Schleicher charted.

• Indo-European ablautCompared with: Ablaut is inherited morphological alternation, not simply a sound change applying in one environment.

• Verner's lawNarrower topic: Verner's law is a specific example of conditioned historical sound change.

• Evolution of languagesRelated: Regular sound shifts can make related words diverge and help identify language relationships.

• High German consonant shiftNarrower topic: The shift is a cluster of sound changes rather than a single isolated event.

• Linguistic reconstructionRelated: Regular sound changes explain why inherited words can sound different across languages.

• Sound correspondenceRelated: Regular sound changes create predictable correspondences between related languages.

• Neogrammarian hypothesisNarrower topic: The hypothesis describes sound change as systematic rather than word-by-word.

• Phonological changeNarrower topic: Phonological change is sound change specifically viewed through a language’s sound system.

• Chinese phonologyNarrower topic: Regular sound changes account for systematic differences among Chinese varieties and historical stages.

• Inuit languagesRelated: Regional sound changes help distinguish neighboring Inuit varieties.

• Language divergenceRelated: Regular sound changes can make inherited words sound unlike their counterparts in related languages.

• LenitionNarrower topic: Lenition is a recurrent pathway of historical sound change.

• Proto-Polynesian languageRelated: Daughter languages preserve different outcomes of ancestral Proto-Polynesian sounds.

• Slavic second palatalizationNarrower topic: The palatalization is a conditioned historical sound change.

• Morris SwadeshRelated: Regular sound correspondences help distinguish inherited words from chance similarities.

• Trans–New Guinea languagesRelated: Regular sound changes can explain why related words differ across the proposed family.

• Slavic third palatalizationNarrower topic: This phenomenon is a specific sound change with identifiable conditioning and outcomes.

• Bouba–kiki effectRelated: Historical changes in word sounds help distinguish conventional word histories from immediate sound symbolism.

• HaplologyNarrower topic: Historical haplology is one specific kind of sound change.

• Monophthongization of diphthongs in Proto-SlavicNarrower topic: Monophthongization is a specific kind of historical sound change.

• Osthoff's lawNarrower topic: Osthoff's law is a historical, environment-conditioned sound change.