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Satem

Satem meaning

Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.

Example sentences (5)

Mawan (fifth left) and Ritchie, together with friends and supporters of the late chief minister, pose for a group photo with ‘The Legacy of Adenan Satem’ coffee-table books.

July 22 was declared by the late Sarawak chief minister Adenan Satem in 2016 as Sarawak’s public holiday to honour past leaders and improve historical awareness among the people.

In that sense, Tocharian (to some extent like the Greek and the Anatolian languages ) seems to have been an isolate in the " satem " (i.e. palatovelar to sibilant ) phonetic regions of Indo-European-speaking populations.

In the 19th century, it was thought that the division between Centum and Satem languages was a simple west–east division, with centum languages in the west.

It may be that the centum branches in fact reflect the original state of affairs in PIE, and only the satem branches shared a set of innovations, which affected all but the peripheral areas of the PIE dialect continuum.