Applications To Language Groups
The rule was originally formulated for Sanskrit. It was later proposed to be valid in some degree for all Satem languages, and exceptionless for Indo-Iranian languages. In Baltic and Albanian, it is more or less limited or affected by other sound laws. Nevertheless, it has to have been universal in these branches of the IE languages, and the lack of Slavic reflexes before consonants is due rather to their merger with the reflexes of other sibilants.
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