evidence that that process was indeed finished by 600 CE.

There is also some disagreement on whether Proto-Slavic velars became affricates before front vowels and before */j/; at first sight, it seems likely that palatalization of velars was an older process than palatalization before */j/.

Many linguists think that the transition *kj > *c, *gj > *z, *xj > *s occurred simultaneously with the changes *sj > *s, *zj > *z, i.e. together with changes otherwise known as the Common Slavic iotation (or

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