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is the WikiProject Linguistics assessment summary page. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:1.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:1.0">WP:1.0</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WVWP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WVWP">WP:WVWP</a> for more information. For linguistics articles, see <a href="/wiki/Category:Linguistics" title="Category:Linguistics">Category:Linguistics</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Linguistics_lists" title="Category:Linguistics lists">Category:Linguistics lists</a>. For linguistics stubs, see <a href="/wiki/Category:Linguistics_stubs" title="Category:Linguistics stubs">Category:Linguistics stubs</a>. For unassessed linguistics articles, see <a href="/wiki/Category:Unassessed_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles">Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Instructions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Instructions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Instructions"></span>Instructions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Instructions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Assessment&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Instructions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quality" data-mw-thread-id="h-Quality-Instructions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Quality-Instructions"></span>Quality<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Quality-Instructions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Assessment&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Quality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An article's quality assessment is generated from the <i><b>class</b></i> parameter in the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Banner_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:WikiProject Banner Shell">WikiProject Banner Shell</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. Articles that have the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Linguistics" title="Template:WikiProject Linguistics">WikiProject Linguistics</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality. </p><p>The following values may be used for the <i><b>class</b></i> parameter to describe the quality of the article (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_assessment" title="Wikipedia:Content assessment">Wikipedia:Content assessment</a> for assessment criteria): </p> <table style="background:transparent"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>FA</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles" title="Wikipedia:Featured articles">featured articles</a> <i>only</i>; adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:FA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:FA-Class Linguistics articles">Category:FA-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-fa"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1153963504">.mw-parser-output td.assess,.mw-parser-output th.assess{font-weight:bold;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output td.assess-unbold,.mw-parser-output th.assess-unbold{font-weight:inherit}.mw-parser-output .assess-fa,.mw-parser-output .assess-fl,.mw-parser-output .assess-fm,.mw-parser-output .assess-fpo{background-color:#9cbdff}.mw-parser-output .assess-a,.mw-parser-output .assess-al{background-color:#66ffff}.mw-parser-output .assess-ga{background-color:#66ff66}.mw-parser-output .assess-b,.mw-parser-output .assess-bl,.mw-parser-output .assess-complete{background-color:#b2ff66}.mw-parser-output .assess-c,.mw-parser-output .assess-cl,.mw-parser-output .assess-substantial{background-color:#ffff66}.mw-parser-output .assess-start,.mw-parser-output .assess-basic{background-color:#ffaa66}.mw-parser-output .assess-stub,.mw-parser-output .assess-sl{background-color:#ffa4a4}.mw-parser-output .assess-list{background-color:#c7b1ff}.mw-parser-output .assess-na{background-color:#f5f5f5}.mw-parser-output .assess-unassessed,.mw-parser-output .assess-default{background-color:#dcdcdc}.mw-parser-output .assess-current{background-color:#e6a4ff}.mw-parser-output .assess-deferred{background-color:#d1bcac}.mw-parser-output .assess-future{background-color:#b4bbff}.mw-parser-output .assess-sia{background-color:#e9daff}.mw-parser-output .assess-category{background-color:#ffdb58}.mw-parser-output .assess-disambig{background-color:#00fa9a}.mw-parser-output .assess-draft{background-color:#e7b198}.mw-parser-output .assess-file{background-color:#ddccff}.mw-parser-output .assess-merge{background-color:#add8e6}.mw-parser-output .assess-needed{background-color:#dcdcdc}.mw-parser-output .assess-portal{background-color:#ddb1bc}.mw-parser-output .assess-project{background-color:#c0c090}.mw-parser-output .assess-redirect{background-color:#c0c0c0}.mw-parser-output .assess-template{background-color:#fbceb1}.mw-parser-output .assess-user{background-color:#ddd06a}</style><span title="Featured article"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Featured_article_star.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Featured article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/16px-Featured_article_star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/24px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/32px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="180"/></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:FA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:FA-Class Linguistics articles">FA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>A</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:A-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:A-Class Linguistics articles">Category:A-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-a"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><span title="A-Class article"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_a_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="A-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Symbol_a_class.svg/16px-Symbol_a_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Symbol_a_class.svg/24px-Symbol_a_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Symbol_a_class.svg/32px-Symbol_a_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:A-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:A-Class Linguistics articles">A</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>GA</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles" title="Wikipedia:Good articles">good articles</a> <i>only</i>; adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:GA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:GA-Class Linguistics articles">Category:GA-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-ga"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><span title="Good article"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Good article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/16px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/24px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/32px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:GA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:GA-Class Linguistics articles">GA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>B</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:B-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:B-Class Linguistics articles">Category:B-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-b"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:B-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:B-Class Linguistics articles">B</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>C</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:C-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:C-Class Linguistics articles">Category:C-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-c"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:C-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:C-Class Linguistics articles">C</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Start</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:Start-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Start-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Start-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-start"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Start-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Start-Class Linguistics articles">Start</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Stub</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:Stub-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Stub-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Stub-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-stub"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Stub-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Stub-Class Linguistics articles">Stub</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>FL</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_lists" title="Wikipedia:Featured lists">featured lists</a> <i>only</i>; adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:FL-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:FL-Class Linguistics articles">Category:FL-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-fl"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><span title="Featured list"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Featured_article_star.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Featured list"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/16px-Featured_article_star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/24px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/32px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="180"/></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:FL-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:FL-Class Linguistics articles">FL</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>List</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:List-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:List-Class Linguistics articles">Category:List-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-list"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:List-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:List-Class Linguistics articles">List</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the <i><b>class</b></i> parameter: </p> <table style="background:transparent"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>Category</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">categories</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Category-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Category-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Category-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Category-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Category-Class Linguistics articles">Category</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Disambig</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages">disambiguation pages</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Disambig-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Disambig-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Disambig-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-disambig"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Disambig-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Disambig-Class Linguistics articles">Disambig</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Draft</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">drafts</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Draft-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Draft-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Draft-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-draft"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Draft-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Draft-Class Linguistics articles">Draft</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>File</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">files</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TimedText" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TimedText">timed text</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:File-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:File-Class Linguistics articles">Category:File-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-file"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:File-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:File-Class Linguistics articles">File</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Portal</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">portal pages</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Portal-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Portal-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Portal-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-portal"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Portal-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Portal-Class Linguistics articles">Portal</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Project</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">project pages</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Project-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Project-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Project-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-project"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Project-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Project-Class Linguistics articles">Project</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Redirect</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirect pages</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Redirect-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Redirect-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Redirect-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-redirect"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Redirect-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Redirect-Class Linguistics articles">Redirect</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Template</b> (for <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">templates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">modules</a>; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:Template-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Template-Class Linguistics articles">Category:Template-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-template"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Template-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Template-Class Linguistics articles">Template</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>NA</b> (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to <a href="/wiki/Category:NA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:NA-Class Linguistics articles">Category:NA-Class Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-na"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:NA-Class_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:NA-Class Linguistics articles">NA</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>???</b> (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Unassessed_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles">Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="assess assess-default"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1153963504"><a href="/wiki/Category:Unassessed_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles">???</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Importance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Importance-Instructions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Importance-Instructions"></span>Importance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Importance-Instructions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Assessment&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Importance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An article's importance assessment is generated from the <i><b>importance</b></i> parameter in the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Linguistics" title="Template:WikiProject Linguistics">WikiProject Linguistics</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> project banner on its talk page: </p> <div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>{{WikiProject Linguistics|importance=???}}</b></div> <p>The following values may be used for the <i><b>importance</b></i> parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Priority_of_topic" title="Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Criteria">Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic</a> for assessment criteria): </p> <table style="background:transparent"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>Top</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:Top-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Top-importance Linguistics articles">Category:Top-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-top" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ff97ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Top-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Top-importance Linguistics articles">Top</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>High</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:High-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:High-importance Linguistics articles">Category:High-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-high" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffacff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:High-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:High-importance Linguistics articles">High</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Mid</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:Mid-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Mid-importance Linguistics articles">Category:Mid-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-mid" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffc1ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Mid-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Mid-importance Linguistics articles">Mid</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Low</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:Low-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Low-importance Linguistics articles">Category:Low-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-low" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffd6ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Low-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Low-importance Linguistics articles">Low</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>NA</b> (adds articles to <a href="/wiki/Category:NA-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:NA-importance Linguistics articles">Category:NA-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-na" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #f5f5f5;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:NA-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:NA-importance Linguistics articles">NA</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>???</b> (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Unknown-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Unknown-importance Linguistics articles">Category:Unknown-importance Linguistics articles</a>) </td> <td></td><td class="import import-" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #dcdcdc;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Unknown-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Unknown-importance Linguistics articles">???</a> </td> </tr></tbody></table> <pre>article's <b>importance</b>, regardless of its quality. </pre> <table class="wikitable plainlinks" width="100%"> <caption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1045256916">.mw-parser-output .navbar-header{text-align:center;position:relative;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .navbar-header .navbar{position:absolute;right:0;top:0;margin:0 5px}</style><div class="navbar-header">WikiProject article importance scheme<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Importance_scheme" title="Template:Importance scheme"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Importance_scheme" title="Template talk:Importance scheme"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Importance_scheme" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Importance scheme"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></div></caption><tbody><tr> <th>Importance</th> <th>Criteria</th> <th>Example</th> </tr> <tr><td class="import import-top" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ff97ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Top-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Top-importance Linguistics articles">Top</a> </td><td>Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to the field of linguistics. Most non-experts will be familiar with the subject.</td> <td style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">Grammar</a></td> </tr><tr><td class="import import-high" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffacff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:High-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:High-importance Linguistics articles">High</a> </td><td>Subject is important to the field of linguistics. Many non-experts will have heard of the subject, but may not be familiar with it.</td> <td style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Morpheme" title="Morpheme">Morpheme</a></td> </tr><tr><td class="import import-mid" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffc1ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Mid-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Mid-importance Linguistics articles">Mid</a> </td><td>Subject fills out more minor details in linguistics. Non-experts may not have heard of it.</td> <td style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Pseudogapping" title="Pseudogapping">Pseudogapping</a></td> </tr><tr><td class="import import-low" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; color: #202122; background: #ffd6ff;"> <a href="/wiki/Category:Low-importance_Linguistics_articles" title="Category:Low-importance Linguistics articles">Low</a> </td><td>Subject is not particularly important within the field of linguistics, but is still notable.</td> <td style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/G_cell" title="G cell">G cell</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Assessment&oldid=1246278375">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Linguistics/Assessment&oldid=1246278375</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Linguistics" title="Category:WikiProject Linguistics">WikiProject Linguistics</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 18 September 2024, at 00:00<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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