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1. An Indo-European language that shows distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that shows a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes.
   "The Centum languages show characteristic plain velars and labiovelars articulated at the back of the mouth in inherited Indo-European lexical items."

Type of: Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite

Encyclopedia: Centum language