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Today's featured article Weise's epitaph in Eisenberg, Germany In historical linguistics, Weise's law describes the loss of palatal quality some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language. In short, when the consonants represented by *ḱ *ǵ *ǵʰ, called palatovelar consonants, are followed by *r, they lose their palatal quality, leading to a loss in distinction between them and the plain velar consonants *k *g *gʰ. Some exceptions exist, such as when the *r is followed by *i or when the palatal form is restored by analogy with related words. Although this sound change is most prominent in the satem languages, it is believed that the change must have occurred prior to the centum–satem division, based on an earlier sound change which affected the distribution of Proto-Indo-European *u and *r. The law is named after the German linguist Oskar Weise (epitaph pictured), who first postulated it in 1881 as the solution to reconciling cognates in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. (Full article...) Recently featured: MLS Cup 1999 Siege of Constantinople (674–678) Edith Roosevelt On this day... November 22 Johnson taking the presidential oath of office 1574 – Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer, discovered an archipelago that now bears his name off the coast of Chile. 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Formosa launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples. 1963 – John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States (pictured). 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands. Frank Matcham (b. 1854) Edwin Thumboo (b. 1933) Chip Berlet (b. 1949) Scarlett Johansson (b. 1984) More anniversaries: November 21 November 22 November 23

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