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Dahl's law
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English
Etymology
en de Dahlsche Gesetz, coined by Carl Meinhof.
Proper noun
en linguistics A voicing dissimilation rule in some Northeast Bantu languages.
en 1985-01-01 N. E. Collinge The Laws of Indo-European John Benjamins Publishing 9789027235305 279 Bantu has been the object of appeal by adherents of Holtzmann's law (q.v.). As to Dahl's law in that group of languages, it has indeed affinities with several IE laws, but seems not unlike Grassmann's to most who quote it. https://books.google.com/books?id=WZEUlPQIVgMC&pg=PA279&hl=en
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