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Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?

Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?

Why did English lose declensions while German retained them?

Is there a reason behind the phenomenon of English becoming more vulgar with time?

How to identify a foreign language from handwriting?

Writing systems that do not preserve spoken order

What is the Mongolian vowel separator for?

How does ghetto talk work in tonal languages?

What is the reason for the double negation found in some languages?

Are there languages in which "coffee" is not a cognate of a root containing k/q and f/h/w?

Worldwide map or data for linguistic distance?

Why does "brother" have the instrumental case in this Polish sentence?

Wraparound writing system?

Why do Polish and Belarusian have an atypical greeting if compared to other Slavic languages?

Is there a language in which feminine is the unmarked gender?

Whispering in languages heavily dependent on pitch or phonation distinctions

What range of strategies are common in natural languages for providing unambiguous answers to negative yes-no questions?

Why does there seem to be so much disagreement among linguists?

Are tones "preserved" when borrowing between unrelated tonal languages?

Is it possible that a language's number system is inherently wrong?

Do Russian-Ukrainian bilinguals or speakers immersed in both languages switch between the pair [ʂ ʐ] and [ʃ ʒ] when they switch between the languages?

Is it possible for a word-initial vowel to not have a glottal stop before it?

Do native speakers of language with lexical tone have difficulty learning another language with more or different lexical tones?

Do any languages form plural pronouns by adding a suffix to the singular form?

Languages with multiple forms of the verb "to be"

difference between Isolating (analytics) vs inflected (fusional) vs agglutinative languages

Why are there many different ways to pronounce a phoneme?

Sounds that are treated as phonetically equivalent

Instrumental - nominative inversion in Polish

What is the linguistic explanation of the phenomenon in "affirmative action"?