Languages aren't constantly getting softer! Here's how fortition happens
Links: Challenging Proto-Indo-European concepts: • Super challenging Proto-Indo-European conc... Wikipedia page on fortition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortition Language Overview: Icelandic: • Language Overview: Icelandic Dr Geoff Lindsey’s video about bad British IPA and avoiding hiatus: • Why these English phonetic symbols are all... Translations: 6:28: (Icelandic) Let me just step right in.
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