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How was the Sanskrit visarga historically pronounced?
Awarded Dec 6 at 13:25
Are there minimal pairs for "l" vs "ll" in Albanian?
Awarded Nov 22 at 6:26
Why does ISO 639-3 have many language codes for Arabic but only one for English?
Awarded Oct 7 at 17:56
Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns?
Awarded Sep 25 at 6:40
How certain is the Latin origin of Albanian ”gënjej” (to lie) from Latin (ingannō<ganniō)?
Awarded Sep 21 at 1:10
Why does "g" in Old English "boga" become "w" in Modern English "bow"?
Awarded Aug 31 at 21:17
Are some languages more advanced than others?
Awarded Aug 29 at 13:50
Is there anything analogous to grammatical gender for verbs?
Awarded Jul 23 at 10:41
American English : are [ə] and [ʌ] different phonemes? (schwa vs. chevron)
Awarded May 18 at 21:33
Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded May 11 at 6:17
Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded May 11 at 6:17
Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded May 11 at 6:17
Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded May 11 at 6:17
Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?
Awarded May 11 at 5:57
Why Is It That Ancient Greek Reconstructed Pronunciation Is Always Used For Koine?
Awarded Apr 7 at 11:07
Are there languages with no first person?
Awarded Mar 14 at 11:21
Is the Sanskrit spoken natively in pockets in India changing?
Awarded Jan 26 at 3:20
Why is English so much more simplified than other, similar languages?
Awarded Nov 6, 2023 at 14:48
In the Romanian language standard accepted pronunciation, is **noștri** pronounced differently from **noștrii**?
Awarded Nov 1, 2023 at 0:33
Why didn't a single language predominate China, Japan, Korea?
Awarded Oct 25, 2023 at 12:50
Why are these Sanskrit words in the nominative case
Awarded Oct 23, 2023 at 0:45
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Oct 8, 2023 at 19:57
Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?
Awarded Oct 4, 2023 at 2:40
Distinction between Chemistry and Alchemy in Arabic and Farsi languages
Awarded Sep 12, 2023 at 11:30
Why do Korean and Japanese sound similar to each other to native speakers of English?
Awarded Sep 10, 2023 at 19:05
Questions about the "Hand of Irulegi"
Awarded Aug 13, 2023 at 17:31
Apparent sound crespondences between Eurasian, Trans-New-Guinean, Pama-Nyungan and Burushaski
Awarded Aug 11, 2023 at 16:43
How are proper nouns distinguished from other nouns in linguistics (not in orthography)?
Awarded Jul 18, 2023 at 20:05
What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 20:20
Articles before the name of a person
Awarded Jun 10, 2023 at 18:57
Why is English so much more simplified than other, similar languages?
Awarded Jun 5, 2023 at 13:36
What's the real need for an end-symbol in n-gram models?
Awarded May 25, 2023 at 19:00
What is markedness?
Awarded May 12, 2023 at 1:36
Could you provide examples of free word order languages that use word order to express grammatical categories?
Awarded Apr 29, 2023 at 14:04
How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. *f in *wulfaz?
Awarded Apr 22, 2023 at 14:50
difference between Isolating (analytics) vs inflected (fusional) vs agglutinative languages
Awarded Jan 29, 2023 at 18:37
Is there any formally recognised concept of a “standard” translation?
Awarded Jan 22, 2023 at 4:46
Why do different languages have different amounts of unique words for numbers between 10 and 20?
Awarded Jan 15, 2023 at 17:42
does modern Hebrew have spelling pronunciations?
Awarded Jan 10, 2023 at 1:21
Lists of linguistic resources
Awarded Dec 11, 2022 at 11:46
Do languages still invent absolutely new single words, or is coining done around pre existing words?
Awarded Nov 30, 2022 at 17:48
4 or 5: is thumb a finger? Distribution across languages
Awarded Nov 20, 2022 at 15:58
How are meanings of a word ordered in a dictionary?
Awarded Oct 27, 2022 at 7:47
Why do stem-changing verbs have a vowel change in Spanish?
Awarded Oct 16, 2022 at 18:04
Why is reconstructed PIE so typologically unusual?
Awarded Oct 10, 2022 at 1:50
Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?
Awarded Oct 1, 2022 at 3:36
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?
Awarded Jul 22, 2022 at 6:03
Is the sound "ř" unique to Czech?
Awarded Jul 13, 2022 at 7:26
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?
Awarded Jul 6, 2022 at 23:10
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
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