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What's the relationship between Old English and Germanic?
Awarded Nov 11 at 22:57
Why do words like 'irregardless' and 'conversate' form?
Awarded Nov 5 at 15:22
Is there evidence of a place name originating from an abbreviation or acronym?
Awarded Sep 2 at 16:05
Do Russian-Ukrainian bilinguals or speakers immersed in both languages switch between the pair [ʂ ʐ] and [ʃ ʒ] when they switch between the languages?
Awarded Aug 10 at 17:46
Why are these Sanskrit words in the nominative case
Awarded Aug 4 at 0:55
Automatically Converting Natural Language to First-Order Logic
Awarded Jun 10 at 4:18
How did OE æ / ǣ tranform into ME ō?
Awarded Jun 7 at 22:35
Why is the specific error "substraction" so common in English?
Awarded May 31 at 15:15
Differences between modern Welsh "fy" and and Old Welsh "fyng/fym/fyn"
Awarded May 22 at 10:35
Do Sign Languages have ambiguities?
Awarded Mar 29 at 21:48
How would vowel-heavy names be written in a pure abjad?
Awarded Mar 3 at 6:25
Is there any evidence that the modern word for "bear" is an euphemism which replaced the original taboo word?
Awarded Feb 26 at 10:11
What effect does the wrong T-V pronoun have on truth-value?
Awarded Feb 17 at 18:30
Does this kind of simile have a more precise/specific name?
Awarded Jan 12 at 18:51
Is there any modern Indo-European languages with synthetic passive form
Awarded Dec 24, 2023 at 16:16
Is "illegal" an example of nasal place assimilation in English?
Awarded Dec 21, 2023 at 13:16
Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
Awarded Dec 5, 2023 at 23:21
Do the qualities of a vowel determine its semivowel’s place of articulation?
Awarded Nov 30, 2023 at 23:40
Why are voiceless plosives (p, t, k) unaspirated after /s/?
Awarded Nov 26, 2023 at 5:56
Why is vowel length not considered phonemic in Turkish?
Awarded Nov 5, 2023 at 5:36
Why isn't there a letter for /b/ sound in Greek alphabet while they have the sound?
Awarded Oct 11, 2023 at 9:02
The reason why Semitic languages are written right to left
Awarded Oct 4, 2023 at 9:40
State of language in the hunter-gatherer era of Europe / Levant?
Awarded Oct 2, 2023 at 6:18
Representation of /o/ phoneme in Cuneiform
Awarded Sep 29, 2023 at 19:25
Why did the consonant clusters /ks/ and /ps/ merit their own designated letters in Ancient Greek?
Awarded Sep 25, 2023 at 17:04
If there is a pattern to Chinese characters
Awarded Sep 19, 2023 at 0:05
Is there a list of word meanings that are universally represented in all languages?
Awarded Sep 11, 2023 at 14:33
Why does πεντάμορφη mean "beautiful"?
Awarded Aug 25, 2023 at 12:15
c- in Irish clann "offspring"
Awarded Aug 9, 2023 at 20:42
Are there languages with verb tenses, but no conjugation?
Awarded Aug 3, 2023 at 8:51
How to distinguish Korean "ㅔ" /e/ and "ㅐ" /ɛ/?
Awarded Aug 1, 2023 at 8:41
Diphthongs and macrons in Hawaiian
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 18:51
Why isn’t it obvious that the grammars of natural languages cannot be context-free?
Awarded Jun 26, 2023 at 7:35
How does historical linguistics reconstruct languages that have no written record?
Awarded Jun 25, 2023 at 10:34
How close are the Italian and the Romanian open central unrounded vowels?
Awarded Jun 7, 2023 at 14:06
Is there really a perfect tense?
Awarded Jun 1, 2023 at 23:16
"STARBUCKESE" syntax problem
Awarded May 28, 2023 at 12:51
Subtypes of Standard Average European
Awarded May 5, 2023 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, 2023 at 13:08
What is the best romanization of ח?
Awarded Apr 21, 2023 at 23:40
How to find source for cuneiform sign PAN 𒉼?
Awarded Apr 17, 2023 at 10:01
Possible influence of Phoenician on local dialects in the British Isles during the Iron Age
Awarded Mar 14, 2023 at 13:40
Was there a Greek or Latin name spelled "Jesus" or similarly before the advent of Christianity?
Awarded Mar 8, 2023 at 17:30
Etymology/Origin of surname Szakal
Awarded Feb 25, 2023 at 2:26
How did the generic masculine emerge?
Awarded Feb 16, 2023 at 8:47
Stable words in the Indo-European language family
Awarded Feb 5, 2023 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
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