20:1620:16, 26 April 2024diffhist−45
Voiced velar plosive
→Occurrence: The English recording begins with a voiceless [k] so I removed it (the page is not about English phonology so all audio recordings should be as clear as possible)currentTags: Mobile editMobile web edit
21:3321:33, 25 April 2024diffhist−378
Finnish language
→Prehistory: The current consensus view is that the most recent common ancestor of Finnish and Saami is Proto-Uralic (i.e. Proto-Finno-Saami did not exist). The source provided for the statement in the article doesn't seem adequate to address this issue.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
13:4413:44, 11 March 2024diffhist−9
Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Uralicist ä is used for languages that distinguish between two low vowels. It certainly doesn't refer to the open-mid vowel which doesn't have a special UPA symbol. In Uralicist notation ö typically refers to just a mid vowel, not specifically a close-mid one; not sure about Americanist notation.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
15:5715:57, 28 December 2023diffhist−65
Diphthong
→Examples: Categorising by top-level language families (the previous state of the article is misleading as it suggests subdivisions of Indo-European are more fundamental than those of other families)