Editing Indo-European Languages (section)

=== 'bh' -> 'm' ===
In two families ([[Balto-Slavic Languages|Balto-Slavic]] and [[Germanic Languages|Germanic]]), certain cases that ended in 'bh' or a related phoneme in other Indo-European languages were replaced with an 'm' sound (including in <u>English</u>, a <u>Germanic</u> language, where the word 'the'''m'''<nowiki/>' is a key example). The same is true in <u>Old Church Slavonic</u>, where it becomes  ''tě-'''m'''ŭ'' ('to those ones'). In more easterly languages, it remains. In <u>Sanskrit</u> ''té-'''bh'''yas'' ‘to those ones,’ <u>Armenian</u> ''noro-'''vk'''ʿ'' ‘with new ones,’ <u>Albanian</u> ''male-'''ve''''' ‘to mountains,’ <u>Greek</u> ''ókhes-'''phin''''' ‘with chariots,’ <u>Latin</u> ''omni-'''bus''''' ‘for all.’

<u>Balto-Slavic</u> and <u>Germanic</u> are neighbors, so it's believed that this phonemic transition occurred only once in a proto-parent shared by these two branches. It exists in a partial, but not complete, overlap of the region affected by the satem change, above. Rarely do these sorts of changes in two branches of the family overlap the exact same territory.