Sound Change

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Sound change is basically random changes in the way we pronounce certain letters and sounds.

The most famous sound change is Grim's Law (Rask's Rule).  It's a sound change that happened early on in the history of Germanic languages.  

Indo-European Germanic 

P-F 

T-Th 

K-H 

B-P 

D-T

G-K 

Gw-Kw

Bh-B

Dh-D

Gh-G

Gwh-Gw

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