Examples of Specific Historical Sound Changes
- Umlaut
- Grimm's law
- Grassmann's law
- Verner's law
- Great Vowel Shift (English)
- High German consonant shift
- Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law
- Kluge's Law
- Dahl's Law
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