Indo-European ablaut [SEP] language of work or name
Indo-European ablaut
In linguistics, the Indo-European ablaut (pronounced ) is a system of apophony (regular vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European language. All modern Indo-European languages have inherited the feature, though its prevalence and productivity strongly varies.
An example of ablaut in English is the strong verb "sing, sang, sung" and its related noun "song", a paradigm inherited directly from the Proto-Indo-European stage of the language.
History of the
language called Proto-Karto-Zan or Proto-Georgian-Zan, which is the ancestor of Karto-Zan languages (includes Georgian and Zan).
Influences.
The ablaut patterns of Proto-Kartvelian are highly similar to those of the Indo-European languages, and so it is widely thought that Proto-Kartvelian interacted with Indo-European at a relatively early date. This is reinforced by a fairly large number of words borrowed from Indo-European, such as the Proto-Kartvelian "*mḳerd-"