User:Benwing/Laryngeal-timeline

section on development on laryngeals in various languages
I want to add a section on how the laryngeals developed, something like this:

From a historical perspective. A proto-language appears to go through three stages as it develops into a set of daughter languages. First occurs a stage with no observable dialect differentation and includes developments that operate universally in the language. Then comes a stage where some sound changes may occur differently (or not at all) in some dialect areas vs. others, but the majority of changes still operate over the language area as a whole, and some changes may occur universally with no variations across the whole area. At a third stage, most