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[Paper] To *b or not to *b: Proto-Indo-European *b in a phylogenetic perspective
https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/273147909/Olander_To_b_or_not_to_b_PIE_b_in_a_phylogenetic_perspective_preprint_.pdfFun scientific paper talking about the odd rarity of *b in the current Proto-Indo-European reconstructions. It doesn't propose why this happens, but it claims that most PIE instances of *b might be actually from a later stage of the language, that the author calls "Indo-Celtic" (the common ancestor of all IE languages minus Anatolian and Tocharian; also known in the literature as "core PIE").
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