Template:Did you know nominations/Nizaa language

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The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 14:35, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Nizaa language

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... that linguists often confused the Nizaa language with a similarly named local language, delaying its proper classification until comprehensive documentation began in the 1990s?

Source: Blench (1993) - page 108 and Kjelsvik (2002) - page 1 (see the documentation section of the article for actual citation templates)

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Comment: This is my first DYK nomination, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.

Improved to Good Article status by PharyngealImplosive7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

– PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 23:17, 18 May 2025 (UTC).

Hi @PharyngealImplosive7:, welcome to DYK. Article was promoted recently, and is certainly of adequate length and quality. Spot checks on the referencing reveal no glaring issues and copyvio is not detected. Hook factoid is interesting, cited inline, but the second half: "delaying its proper classification until comprehensive documentation began in the 1990s" is not explicitly mentioned in the article. Could you either revise the hook to match the article's prose, or adjust the prose to match the hook? Juxlos (talk) 14:01, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Juxlos: I've revised the article prose to be much clearer about this point. Now it says Furthermore, because another language existed in Adamawa Region also called 'nyamnyam', linguists often confused the two languages, and the exact classification of Nizaa was in doubt before extensive documentation began in the 1990s, which should be similar to what is in the hook. – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 14:39, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Good to go then. Juxlos (talk) 15:02, 20 May 2025 (UTC)