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Distinction between Chemistry and Alchemy in Arabic and Farsi languages
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Why do Korean and Japanese sound similar to each other to native speakers of English?
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Questions about the "Hand of Irulegi"
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Apparent sound crespondences between Eurasian, Trans-New-Guinean, Pama-Nyungan and Burushaski
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How are proper nouns distinguished from other nouns in linguistics (not in orthography)?
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What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
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Articles before the name of a person
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Why is English so much more simplified than other, similar languages?
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What's the real need for an end-symbol in n-gram models?
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What is markedness?
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Could you provide examples of free word order languages that use word order to express grammatical categories?
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How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. *f in *wulfaz?
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difference between Isolating (analytics) vs inflected (fusional) vs agglutinative languages
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Is there any formally recognised concept of a “standard” translation?
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Why do different languages have different amounts of unique words for numbers between 10 and 20?
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does modern Hebrew have spelling pronunciations?
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Is there any corpus for technical English? (E.g., computers, IT, modern technology)
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 18:41
Lists of linguistic resources
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Do languages still invent absolutely new single words, or is coining done around pre existing words?
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4 or 5: is thumb a finger? Distribution across languages
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How are meanings of a word ordered in a dictionary?
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Why do stem-changing verbs have a vowel change in Spanish?
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Why is reconstructed PIE so typologically unusual?
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Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?
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Why is the passive voice more prevalent in English than in other Indo-European languages?
Awarded Sep 17, 2022 at 20:33
What are the different schools of PIE reconstruction?
Awarded Sep 6, 2022 at 17:21
Did the Greek adverb for "late" evolve into a preposition meaning "after"?
Awarded Jul 27, 2022 at 9:07
Why did auxiliary verbs in Kazakh got completely merged into one word in Turkish?
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Is the sound "ř" unique to Czech?
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Which language has the biggest vocabulary?
Awarded Jul 10, 2022 at 18:20
Is there a name for a word which can take both genders?
Awarded Jul 10, 2022 at 6:06
What languages are the most similar to English?
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What languages lack personal pronouns, and why?
Awarded Jun 23, 2022 at 23:21
Is "hand" etymologically related to "five" in many world languages?
Awarded Jun 22, 2022 at 6:58
Is "hand" etymologically related to "five" in many world languages?
Awarded Jun 21, 2022 at 23:51
Why is Hangul (Korean script) not considered an Abugida
Awarded May 30, 2022 at 13:06
Any reasons for unexplained centumization in Balto-Slavic?
Awarded May 15, 2022 at 15:36
Is Slavic [zima] ("winter") derived from "snow"?
Awarded May 9, 2022 at 12:18
"Ring species" as dialect continuum?
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On the idea that Classical Chinese may *not* be direct ancestor of modern Chinese languages
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How is chapter related to head?
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Why was korea able to remove kanji but japan wasn't when both languages use homophones?
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What is meant by "s/he flies" in Plains Cree dictionary?
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Measuring oral comprehensibility between different language
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Worldwide map or data for linguistic distance?
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Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
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Textbooks in Formal Semantics / Montague semantics
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Why don't modern Romance languages have the verb "to stand"?
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Are there any audio recordings of the speech of the feral child Genie?
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Is there any agglutinative Indo-European language?
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Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation
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Was there a Greek or Latin name spelled "Jesus" or similarly before the advent of Christianity?
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Does Japanese have pronouns?
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?
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Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 8:30
Is there a general consensus on what modern language is the closest relative of Albanian?
Awarded Jul 14, 2021 at 14:15
When you think one word, but write another, similar sounding word?
Awarded Jul 9, 2021 at 6:25
Are there languages with consonant clusters that include consonants that never occur alone?
Awarded Jul 6, 2021 at 11:56
How is it that such varied sounds (in major European Languages) came to be represented by the same letter "j"?
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Differences among Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese
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