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Do languages ever get new cases?
Awarded Dec 28, 2017 at 14:04
Are some languages more advanced than others?
Awarded Dec 9, 2017 at 19:38
Can /∅/ be used transliterate silent characters? (I.P.A.)
Awarded Nov 18, 2017 at 13:45
Is a language possible without verbs or without nouns?
Awarded Oct 12, 2017 at 21:13
When does copula absence occur in African-American Vernacular English?
Awarded Oct 10, 2017 at 12:32
What is markedness?
Awarded Sep 26, 2017 at 11:35
Besides logics, what mathematical tools are used in the study of linguistics?
Awarded Sep 3, 2017 at 13:51
Do any languages use {woman} as the root for human?
Awarded Aug 6, 2017 at 21:12
Please help me identify this language (w/ image)
Awarded Aug 2, 2017 at 6:05
Are there languages without words for "father" or "mother" but only "parent"?
Awarded Jun 19, 2017 at 5:57
Is it feasible to create an IPA adaptation for cats?
Awarded Jun 18, 2017 at 22:47
How do computational linguists abstractly represent a language?
Awarded May 17, 2017 at 12:56
Are Latin "virīlis", Punjabi "vīr", Old Irish "fer" , Wels "gwr" and Hindi "var" related?
Awarded May 16, 2017 at 22:52
Declensions in Polish
Awarded May 11, 2017 at 16:42
Are there any languages with only front vowels?
Awarded May 7, 2017 at 19:16
What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
Awarded May 2, 2017 at 2:20
Can a stop be both voiced and aspirated?
Awarded Apr 28, 2017 at 4:50
How do illiterate French people learn which pronunciation to use in different sentences?
Awarded Apr 27, 2017 at 3:01
Is there any language where verb inflection takes place word-initially?
Awarded Apr 15, 2017 at 17:42
What is the idea behind calling the adverb the garbage can of words?
Awarded Feb 21, 2017 at 9:22
Derivatives of Latin *mulier* in French
Awarded Feb 20, 2017 at 13:22
What is the difference between native language, first language, mother tongue and L1?
Awarded Feb 17, 2017 at 15:11
Is [x] any different from [kʰ]?
Awarded Feb 15, 2017 at 17:33
What range of strategies are common in natural languages for providing unambiguous answers to negative yes-no questions?
Awarded Jan 30, 2017 at 5:57
Is IPA machine-readable?
Awarded Jan 25, 2017 at 0:45
Do Spanish speakers prefer certain words for certain aspects, like in Russian?
Awarded Jan 24, 2017 at 18:19
Sumerian cuneiform dictionary?
Awarded Jan 19, 2017 at 4:03
Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
Awarded Jan 18, 2017 at 16:15
Relation between Hebrew 'סמפוניה' and English 'Symphony'
Awarded Jan 10, 2017 at 18:00
Are there languages with triple or quadruple negation?
Awarded Jan 8, 2017 at 21:38
Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?
Awarded Jan 1, 2017 at 9:38
Why do languages retain or re-create complexity?
Awarded Dec 30, 2016 at 20:02
Are these similarities coincidental?
Awarded Dec 23, 2016 at 23:01
Earliest recognition that Germanic and Romance languages are related
Awarded Dec 18, 2016 at 1:52
Why is Korean considered a language isolate?
Awarded Dec 8, 2016 at 21:37
Why exactly is *“I Am America (And So Can You!)” ungrammatical?
Awarded Nov 15, 2016 at 8:45
Do the IPA consonants /v/ and /w/ sound similar?
Awarded Nov 9, 2016 at 2:41
What is the difference between complements and adjuncts?
Awarded Oct 7, 2016 at 10:57
Is there a branch of linguistics using Calculus as a mathematical tool?
Awarded Aug 28, 2016 at 14:06
What is the relation between the words "Cossack" and "Kazakh"?
Awarded Jun 2, 2016 at 6:20
Wraparound writing system?
Awarded May 15, 2016 at 2:15
Do the words "angst" and "anxiety" share a common root?
Awarded May 2, 2016 at 17:41
How old is linguistics as a discipline?
Awarded Apr 23, 2016 at 17:44
Where did the homonyms which retain meaning among languages come from?
Awarded Apr 13, 2016 at 15:04
How stable are grammatical genders?
Awarded Apr 4, 2016 at 21:38
Please help me identify this language (image)
Awarded Apr 3, 2016 at 16:20
Is دشمن ("enemy" in Persian) borrowed from δυσμενής ("hostile" in ancient Greek)?
Awarded Mar 15, 2016 at 8:17
Why is the letter "Q" visually simillar to "O"?
Awarded Feb 19, 2016 at 5:23
Indistinguishability of [f] and [s] on phone - citation?
Awarded Jan 17, 2016 at 2:43
Why is Ivrit not considered an artificial language?
Awarded Jan 5, 2016 at 11:11
Aramaic compared to Spanish
Awarded Nov 11, 2015 at 13:46
Efficient linguistic algorithms for detecting language of a website?
Awarded Oct 9, 2015 at 1:59
Is there any language that uses different pronouns for "we" depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group?
Awarded Sep 25, 2015 at 13:20
What is the difference between a word root and a word stem?
Awarded Sep 25, 2015 at 4:17
What is the name of the type of sentences that describe an action that is realized by saying the sentence?
Awarded Sep 17, 2015 at 7:04
Is there a named common ancestor of Germanic and Latin besides "Indo-European"?
Awarded Jun 22, 2015 at 6:04
Why does English have both Latin and Greek origins
Awarded Jun 21, 2015 at 13:54
French Numbering System - Eighty to Ninety-Nine
Awarded Apr 24, 2015 at 5:58
Does the syllable/word ratio in a language determine the number of vowel phonemes it has?
Awarded Apr 20, 2015 at 22:11
Why was the name תאומא transliterated as Θωμᾶς (Thomas) rather than Τωμᾶς (Tomas)?
Awarded Apr 15, 2015 at 13:25
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