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Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
Awarded Dec 8, 2023 at 21:49
What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
Awarded Nov 22, 2023 at 16:36
Why was "zh" picked to represent /ʒ/, and where does it come from?
Awarded May 2, 2023 at 14:15
How did the generic masculine emerge?
Awarded Feb 18, 2023 at 14:05
Are Hungarian and Turkish related?
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 9:55
Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3
Awarded Jan 18, 2023 at 0:05
Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
Awarded Jun 27, 2022 at 22:21
Why isn’t the letter “G” immediately after “C” in the alphabet?
Awarded Dec 19, 2021 at 21:36
Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
Awarded Oct 23, 2021 at 0:10
Why is the word "war" in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin?
Awarded May 20, 2021 at 6:02
What is the longest word without a vowel in any language?
Awarded Apr 20, 2021 at 12:58
Is the Indo-European language family made up?
Awarded Apr 16, 2021 at 15:59
Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?
Awarded Feb 17, 2021 at 7:50
Is future tense in English really a myth?
Awarded Nov 5, 2020 at 9:01
Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?
Awarded Sep 25, 2020 at 8:07
Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?
Awarded Mar 30, 2020 at 2:30
Is there a linguistics term meaning "it's grammatically correct, but nobody says that"?
Awarded Jan 30, 2020 at 4:45
What's the difference between syntax and grammar?
Awarded Jan 14, 2020 at 22:05
Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
Awarded Dec 17, 2019 at 22:10
Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
Awarded Oct 11, 2019 at 11:45
Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?
Awarded Oct 7, 2019 at 10:00
Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
Awarded Sep 10, 2019 at 18:15
Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Awarded Sep 6, 2019 at 4:20
Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
Awarded Aug 25, 2019 at 8:35
Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
Awarded Jul 6, 2019 at 17:45
Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German?
Awarded Dec 18, 2018 at 9:30
When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
Awarded Aug 31, 2018 at 12:50
Is there any language that uses different pronouns for "we" depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group?
Awarded Jul 10, 2018 at 22:05
Why don't you get back the original text when you use translation software to translate something into another language and then back into English?
Awarded May 31, 2018 at 17:18
Are there any scripts which have more than 127 characters?
Awarded May 14, 2018 at 14:26
Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc?
Awarded Dec 21, 2017 at 17:50
Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?
Awarded Aug 30, 2015 at 6:54
Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?
Awarded May 26, 2015 at 15:57