Orthography
PIE
Common Slavic
Phun with Phonology
Jers to Jo
100
They are credited with creating the first Slavic alphabet
Who were Kirill and Methodius?
100
The only fricative in PIE
What is /s/?
100
The short variant of these two vowels merged to create Common Slavic /o/
What are /a/ and /o/?
100
One of two principles guiding CS sound changes
What is ‘open syllable/rising sonority’ OR ‘syllabic harmony’?
100
‘milk’, ‘млеко’ and ‘молоко’ illustrate this phenomenon
What is metathesis/pleophony?
200
He modernized the Cyrillic alphabet to enable printing
Who was Peter the Great?
200
The number of diphthongs in PIE
What is six?
200
This PIE vowel evolved into MR Ы
What is long /u/?
200
MR церковь derived from Gm. ‘kirk’ via this sound change
What is 2 POV?
200
MR ‘Ь’ and ‘Ъ’ derive from these PIE phonemes
What are short /i/ and short /u/?
300
They reintroduced archaic letters to the Russian alphabet
Who were the Bulgarian monks?
300
A PIE consonant that involved both the back of the throat and the lips
What is a labio-velar?
300
This CS sound developed from PIE long /e/
What is ‘jat’ (ѣ)?
300
The /bl’/ in люблю and рубль resulted from this sound change
What is Jot-Palatalization?
300
According to Havlik’s rule these jers became full vowels
What are ‘strong’ or ‘even-numbered)?
400
It was the alphabet created to teach Christianity to the Slavs
What is Glagolitic?
400
Eg. ‘sing’ and ‘song’ is an example of this PIE phenomenon
What is ‘ablaut’?
400
These PIE consonants became CS /z/ and /s/
What are palatal /g/ and /k/?
400
Lat. ‘pente, pontis’ appears in Rus. as‘пять, путь’ due to the development of these new Slavic phonemes
What are nasal vowels?
400
Devoicing of consonants following the fall of jers resulted in the appearance of the last Russian fricative
What is ‘Ф’?
500
It replaced the Cyrillic letter ‘Ѕ’
What is ‘З’ ?
500
One of three proposed PIE homelands
What is ‘Anatolia or Turkey’, ‘north of the Black Sea’ or ‘Northern Europe’?
500
This sound change gave rise to MR Х
What is ‘ruki rule’?
500
Ger. ‘Leute’, Rus ‘люди’ and Eng. ‘lewd’ illustrate this phenomenon
What is monophthongization of diphthongs?
500
Although in MR this phoneme merged with /e/ it never becomes /jo/
What is jat ‘ѣ’?
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