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18:1118:11, 13 January 2022 diff hist −267 Fatima al-Suqutriyya →Work: the source doesn't exist anymore. at any rate the second line was the third, and the other two had nothing to do with the text given. maybe it is another portion of the poem. if you don't believe me as an anon, please don't revert, but ask a user who knows Arabic and they'll confirm Tag: references removed

10:1510:15, 12 January 2022 diff hist −3 Portuguese grammar →Articles: second example didn't belong here. it was a nominalised adjective and that has nothing to do with the indefinite article, but could also be done with the definite article etc.

08:3808:38, 11 January 2022 diff hist −304 Continental Celtic languages removed unfit source and claim based thereon (self-published undergraduate thesis) Tag: references removed
05:4605:46, 11 January 2022 diff hist −58 Golden hour (photography) removed wrong statement. it's explained below that the length varies and may even be more than an hour.

06:3006:30, 6 January 2022 diff hist −19 Georg Friedrich Grotefend →Later publications: Today we distinguish between Avestan and Old Persian, but based on the knowledge available then he was absolutely right in identifying it with the most closely related language. And Jesus... what does "lacking knowledge of Old Persian" mean when Old Persian is the very language he is discovering?!
06:1806:18, 6 January 2022 diff hist −26 Georg Friedrich Grotefend →Decipherment method: Surely he didn't simply use the Greek form, but rather matched possible letter values with all of the name forms known to him. His reading "Goshtasp" shows that, too.
05:3005:30, 6 January 2022 diff hist −56 Sumerian language →Other issues: if a French reference is at all necessary here, at any rate one version will do... this is about Sumerian, not French conjugation

23:4823:48, 2 January 2022 diff hist 0 Holger Pedersen (linguist) →Origin of the Nostratic theory: the book was written in 1924 and translated in 1931. hence it's a "1924 book" quoted here from 1931.
23:4423:44, 2 January 2022 diff hist +147 Holger Pedersen (linguist) →Origin of the Nostratic theory: don't know if he later softened that view but in the article "Türkische Lautgesetze" he says "zweifellos".

16:5716:57, 23 December 2021 diff hist +9 Iberian Romance languages →Phonetic: at least pl- and cl- also merge in some southern Italian varieties

00:0900:09, 21 December 2021 diff hist −37 Nougat →Distribution and popularity: removed unsourced folk etymology. the word is of Arabic origin (qubbayt قبيت)

18:2318:23, 18 December 2021 diff hist +43 Middle Persian →Consonants: [h] is a glottal sound. /// [l] is an "approximant", too; so in order to distinguish properly, /j/ and /enwiki/w/ must be called "semivowels". (Though it'd be more economical to put /l/, /j/, /enwiki/w/ all in one line under "approximant"). /// /enwiki/w/ is both labial and velar, but since we have /xw/ under velar, it makes more sense to put /enwiki/w/ there as well.

10:3010:30, 16 December 2021 diff hist −7 Guttural R →Yiddish influence: This sound has been described (by whom I don't know) as "unique" also in "Hebrew phonology" and several other wikipedia articles. It's meaningless. The sound is quite common in languages with a uvular rhotic (including Danish, German, and others), as attested in this very article.
10:1810:18, 16 December 2021 diff hist 0 Guttural R →Standard German: common before -en, less so before -el, -em, -es, unusual before -e and -er

21:3221:32, 13 December 2021 diff hist +15 Aramaic →Consonants: sh and y have quite different places of articulation. p/b and f/v don't have the same place either. so uvular and pharyngeal can be put in one column with the same right.
17:4817:48, 13 December 2021 diff hist +155 Eastern Iranian languages No edit summary
16:3516:35, 13 December 2021 diff hist +20 Makroudh No edit summary