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7 May 2023

2 May 2023

  • 13:4413:44, 2 May 2023 diff hist −2 Bengali language→‎Vocabulary: As already corrected under "Bengali vocabulary", this is a misuse of the term "reborrowing". Bengali is a descendant of Sanskrit, yes. But "reborrowing" means something entirely different, namely that a languages borrows a word and then the donor language borrows it back.
  • 13:4213:42, 2 May 2023 diff hist −44 Bengali vocabularyCorrected misuse of the term "reborrowing" throughout the article. I understand that the idea is to indicate that Sanskrit is a predecessor of Bengali (which is true, of course). But that's simply not what "reborrowing" means. Reborrowing is when a language borrows a word and then the donor language borrows it back (example from wiktionary: English "football" > German "Fußball" > English "foosball")
  • 10:1510:15, 2 May 2023 diff hist −25 Mauritian Creole→‎Lexicon: a development from "win" to "get" surely isn't "changed altogether", it's merely a slight notion

30 April 2023

  • 23:2223:22, 30 April 2023 diff hist −51 Emphatic consonantThe wording about the chain shift was ambiguous at best. At any rate these details aren't relevant here. More relevant is that this pronunciation is old and not a recent dialectal development.

28 April 2023

25 April 2023