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Had the ancient languages fewer words than modern languages?

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Can English “dream” be a cognate to Latin “dormatio” and Russian “dröma” “sleep”?

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Why does anger has something to do with spleen in both Chinese and English?

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When was the name of Wales first mentioned in Romanian, and in which form?

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Where are some of the biggest freely available English 1 on 1 conversation corpuses that are in plain text preferably?

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