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, most recently Georgian, Korean, Romanian, and Turkish.

And I collect dictionaries.

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90 Questions

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24	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?
14	Are the Japanese and Korean subject particles known to be related in any way?
13	Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?

+5	Is a diphthong one phoneme or two, or does it depend?
+5	Is the “ll” in Albanian like the sounds in other languages?
+5	Is there a named common ancestor of Germanic and Latin besides “Indo-European”?
+10	Why does English have both Latin and Greek origins

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