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If there is a pattern to Chinese characters
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Is there a list of word meanings that are universally represented in all languages?
Awarded Sep 11 at 14:33
Why does πεντάμορφη mean "beautiful"?
Awarded Aug 25 at 12:15
c- in Irish clann "offspring"
Awarded Aug 9 at 20:42
Are there languages with verb tenses, but no conjugation?
Awarded Aug 3 at 8:51
How to distinguish Korean "ㅔ" /e/ and "ㅐ" /ɛ/?
Awarded Aug 1 at 8:41
Diphthongs and macrons in Hawaiian
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Why isn’t it obvious that the grammars of natural languages cannot be context-free?
Awarded Jun 26 at 7:35
How does historical linguistics reconstruct languages that have no written record?
Awarded Jun 25 at 10:34
How close are the Italian and the Romanian open central unrounded vowels?
Awarded Jun 7 at 14:06
Is there really a perfect tense?
Awarded Jun 1 at 23:16
"STARBUCKESE" syntax problem
Awarded May 28 at 12:51
Subtypes of Standard Average European
Awarded May 5 at 18:05
How did it happen that K was introduced to Latin alphabet in place of C and C started to mark /t͡s/ or /s/ in many languages?
Awarded Apr 22 at 13:08
What is the best romanization of ח?
Awarded Apr 21 at 23:40
How to find source for cuneiform sign PAN 𒉼?
Awarded Apr 17 at 10:01
Possible influence of Phoenician on local dialects in the British Isles during the Iron Age
Awarded Mar 14 at 13:40
Was there a Greek or Latin name spelled "Jesus" or similarly before the advent of Christianity?
Awarded Mar 8 at 17:30
Etymology/Origin of surname Szakal
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How did the generic masculine emerge?
Awarded Feb 16 at 8:47
Stable words in the Indo-European language family
Awarded Feb 5 at 18:35
Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 6:17
What do you call it when you write the next word in a sequence twice instead of the current and next word?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 20:41
What is the term for, and a list of, "continuous dialects"?
Awarded Dec 4, 2022 at 7:55
Are there languages without T-V distinction (but with two pronouns, one exclusive to singular, the other to plural)?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 13:12
Why do transcriptions from Arabic contain numbers instead of letters?
Awarded Nov 2, 2022 at 7:47
Why are "eat" and "drink" different words in languages?
Awarded Oct 15, 2022 at 0:04
Indo-European languages that have innovated a nominative-accusative distinction for neuter nouns
Awarded Oct 4, 2022 at 17:37
What is the difference, if any, between "ungrammatical" and "infelicitous" as linguistic terms?
Awarded Oct 4, 2022 at 16:36
Is the Dispilio tablet evidence of a pre-Sumerian and pre-Egyptian writing system?
Awarded Sep 23, 2022 at 15:27
What were the Proto-Bantu -ATR vowels?
Awarded Aug 18, 2022 at 2:41
Is Medea not the root of media?
Awarded Jul 22, 2022 at 0:19
Are there any languages where verbs in the past form are used with the future tense?
Awarded Jul 19, 2022 at 21:31
Why do we use the names we do for grammatical genders?
Awarded Jul 11, 2022 at 3:16
Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
Awarded Jun 12, 2022 at 13:15
Are there semivowels besides /w/ and /j/ and which are most common?
Awarded May 6, 2022 at 4:36
What are the main accents of modern Russian among native speakers?
Awarded Apr 29, 2022 at 0:31
Impossible bigrams in the English Language
Awarded Apr 18, 2022 at 6:27
Why was "zh" picked to represent /ʒ/, and where does it come from?
Awarded Apr 13, 2022 at 16:41
How does a linguist learn a brand new language?
Awarded Apr 12, 2022 at 17:32
Does Mandarin Chinese have phonetically voiced plosives, fricatives, or affricates (besides "r" = [ʐ] / [ɻ])?
Awarded Apr 12, 2022 at 8:06
What do "titles" and "Beijing" stand for?
Awarded Apr 4, 2022 at 21:16
Do the Belarusians understand the Ukrainian language better than Russians do?
Awarded Apr 3, 2022 at 17:00
Name of horizontal line below character in Hebrew
Awarded Apr 3, 2022 at 14:57
Is it OK to render Hebrew words with the final form missing?
Awarded Mar 15, 2022 at 19:12
Why is the question mark like this in Hebrew language?
Awarded Mar 15, 2022 at 19:12
What is the dash or hyphen in reconstructed words in PIE?
Awarded Feb 16, 2022 at 19:25
Can animacy be grammatical or must it always be natural?
Awarded Jan 25, 2022 at 2:52
Why does the NATO Spelling alphabet contain words with more than two syllables
Awarded Dec 18, 2021 at 2:40
Why isn’t the letter “G” immediately after “C” in the alphabet?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 14:27
Is punctuation necessary in written language?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 5:20
Is there a clear linguistic reason for Swiss German not being considered its own Germanic language?
Awarded Dec 13, 2021 at 8:21
What is the function of a gender distinction in nouns?
Awarded Nov 17, 2021 at 13:27
If the Arabic script is suited to Arabic grammar, how do speakers of non-Semitic languages cope with it?
Awarded Nov 16, 2021 at 21:32
Why are there grammars in languages in the first place?
Awarded Nov 14, 2021 at 14:01
What are the differences between palatal consonant and palatalized consonant?
Awarded Nov 1, 2021 at 9:50
Why is tense obligatory in some languages and not in others?
Awarded Oct 29, 2021 at 11:51
How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
Awarded Oct 28, 2021 at 8:20
Etymology of the Turkish word "rüzgâr"
Awarded Oct 21, 2021 at 9:44
Is 😂 a word/letter?
Awarded Sep 19, 2021 at 8:51
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