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Working on the conlang Tune and conscript Tone when I get the time. Learning linguistics as I go. Took a linguistics class with George Lakoff at Berkeley when an undergraduate. Majored in Neuroscience. Working as a software developer.

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Why vowels sound different from each other
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Why were vowels secondary citizens in many of the worlds sound-based writing systems?
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Do any languages use words like particles to represent commas, periods, hyphens, quotes, parentheses, etc.?
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How linguists select phonemes to construct an alphabet for a language
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List of 1000 most common words across all languages [closed]
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Example of a tenseless sentence
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Understanding the purpose of determiners/articles/demonstratives in language
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What is the IPA of the two-syllable r sound in English?
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Why r, h, and w aren't vowels
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The difference between a regular consonant and a syllabic consonant
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