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Vocalization (currently a disambiguation page), the change of a consonant into a vowel or semivowel, a form oflenition, in some cases synonymous with approximation. There is an article onl-vocalization, but nothing on the topic in general. This term needs to be distinguished from several other concepts also called "vocalization", such asspeech production,voice (phonetics), andconsonant voicing and devoicing, and finding another term for the concept that does not have such ambiguity might be helpful. Or perhaps the concept should be described in the article on lenition. —Eru·tuon23:10, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
List of glossing abbreviations - In classroom practice, this page has become a main reference to resolve glossing abbreviations in interlinear glossed text. In Wikipedia, this *should* be the basis for glossing with the templates{{interlinear}} and{{Gcl}} and provide input toModule:Interlinear/data. Originally, this was compiled and extended in an opportunistic fashion. Not all glosses listed there have adequate literature references, yet. For some, no "conventional gloss" (for use within Wikipedia) has been suggested so far, for other glosses, there is need to confirm/review the "conventional gloss". More variants are needed and a discussion of systematic principles of forming abbreviations (e.g., -E or -ESS for essives).Chiarcos (talk)13:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Northern Subject Rule, I have added a large amount of text explaining the Celtic origin hypothesis for this feature, it now needs the Old English and (possibly) Norse theories including for balance. I really don't feel comfortable with doing it myself as I'm pretty useless with Old English. Can anybody help?Boynamedsue (talk)07:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comparative case – Though this tagged as a high-importance linguistics article, the article is only a stub. The range of uses of "comparative case" needs to be clarified, and there needs to be more examples.Biktor627 (talk)20:16, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew and the relatedTamil loanwords in other languages appear to have some pov issues around tamil nationalism, and the former is of very poor quality (the grammar is spotty, loanwords are cited only transliteration, sometimes unvocalised, and sometimes seemingly inconsistent with the grammar suggested by the translation). Several of the examples also seem to be stretched at best and, one of the cited works also calls several of the examples provided by one of their other sources "highly controversial", something the article does not bring up. I also raised this on the etymology subproject but that appears fairly deadTristanjlroberts (talk)14:44, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Krishnamurti cites two of the etyma as successful loans without refering to the bible. This would mean Proto-Dravidian, give or take if the dates are uncertain.Dravidian andTamil are probably cognate ethnonyms, still used as synonyms but distinguished later in linguistic discourse. So the fact that the article leads with "Tamil loanwords" is a sign of a rather local perspective where they may be synonyms. Perhaps it should be moved.Rhyminreason (talk)22:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OntoLex also written from a technical perspective (because this is in the intersection with computer science), but requires a thorough look from the eyes of a linguist to improve readabilityChiarcos (talk)13:26, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think I have added a bit of length to that article since it was given its stub status, but I don't really know how the quality grading is supposed to be changed and haven't thought about looking into it...Replayful (talk)13:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I took a look at the article, and I think it looks to be of sufficient quality and length to qualify as start, so I changed the rating, which, by the way, you can do by going to the talk page of the article and editing the class in the WP Linguistics header at the top. Also, should I remove this thread from here as the article review under question has been completed?Indigopari (talk)08:11, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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