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Meeussen's rule en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after its first observer, Achille Emile Meeussen (1912–1978).

Meanings

  1. The rule describing a special case of tone reduction in Bantu languages, where in some contexts the second of two adjacent high tones is lowered.