Law of Pedersen

The law of Pedersen or rule of ruki is a phonetic law that concerns the satem group of the Indo-European languages, especially the languages ​​balueloslavas and languages ​​indoiranias being in numerous words in the Romance languages. It is named in honor of the Danish philologist Holger Pedersen who postulated it. It is called and better known as ruki rule because it is the phonemes / r /, / u /, / k / e / i / that play a central role in the realization of this law.

Pedersen's law says that:

in Indo-Armenian and Slavic, the original * of the indefeasible is palatalized to š (in indolent afterwards ś) after r, u, k and i, as long as * s is not followed by a plosive.

And it can be represented formally like this: / * s / & gt; / * š /: / r, u, k, and / _____ [- PLOSIVA] Examples

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