hippietrail

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Travelling armchair linguist.

Never studied in an institution but read books and web with probably more breadth than depth.

Always on the road surviving in a strange foreign language, currently Georgian.

And I collect dictionaries.

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63 Questions

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20	Are there languages with other spatial deixis besides “here”, “there” and “over there”?
18	Do some languages have articles besides the definite and indefinite articles?
15	How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak?
12	Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?
12	Are the Japanese and Korean subject particles known to be related in any way?

+15	Are there languages with other spatial deixis besides “here”, “there” and “over there”?
+2	terminology tag wiki
+10	In Turkish, how exactly does “ğ” effect the vowel it follows?
+5	What is the difference between a “mixed language” and a “creole”?

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11	What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?
11	How are syllabic consonants written in IPA?
10	What is the reasoning behind the selection of the IPA symbols?
9	Are there any fundamental differences in personal pronoun acquisition across languages?
7	Outside of Modern Hebrew, do any previously dead languages have native speakers again?