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Osthoff's law

Indo-European shortening of long vowels before syllable-final resonants
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Osthoff's law

Summary

Osthoff's law is a phonetic rule[1]. It draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (phonetic_rule category, ranking #6 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Osthoff's law's instance of is recorded as phonetic rule[3].
  • Hermann Osthoff is named after Osthoff's law[4].
  • Osthoff's law's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06_v338[5].

Why It Matters

Osthoff's law draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (phonetic_rule category, ranking #6 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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