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Klingenheben's law

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• ... that although Klingenheben's law is usually referred to in the singular, it actually comprises four independent sound changes?

• Source: "Although KL is typically referred to in the singular, that is, 'Klingenheben’s Law', there are really four sound changes, which occurred in different manners and at different historical times." – Newman (2022), p. 15

• ALT1: ... that the coronal rule in Klingenheben's law is largely responsible for the distinction between the two "r" sounds in modern Hausa? Source: "The present-day phonemic contrast between the flap /r/ and the rolled /ř/ is to a great extent due to this rhotacism rule." – Newman (2022), p. 16
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aquilegia shockleyi

Created by ThaesOfereode (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

ThaesOfereode (talk) 17:11, 31 March 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: New article. Well cited, most of the citations are scholarly articles behind paywalls, so I assume good faith regarding copyvio. The hook is interesting to people with no linguistic background. The hook is in the article - I found it interesting that Klingenheben himself used a plural term in German, whereas a singular English term was coined. There's a few redlinks in the article, I don't see anything in the guidelines against this - I imagine even in the vast repository of Wikipedia, Hausa linguistic rules are still relatively obscure. I'm going to go ahead and approve ALT0. I think ALT1 requires too much specialized knowledge for the main page. Thanks! Annwfwn (talk) 12:50, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, Annwfwn! And yeah, there are some glaring blindspots not just on Hausa linguistic rules, but historical linguistics in general, so I'm trying to help. Agree that ALT0 is most accessible. Thanks again for the review. ThaesOfereode (talk) 01:46, 6 April 2025 (UTC)