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Why does ISO 639-3 have many language codes for Arabic but only one for English?
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Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
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Do the qualities of a vowel determine its semivowel’s place of articulation?
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Why are voiceless plosives (p, t, k) unaspirated after /s/?
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In which situations or societies do people not take turns to speak in conversations?
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Does Japanese have determiners?
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When did people realize French has its root in Latin?
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Why is the specific error "substraction" so common in English?
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Why is the specific error "substraction" so common in English?
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Why is the specific error "substraction" so common in English?
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Why is vowel length not considered phonemic in Turkish?
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Contemporary words used in a cultural text set in another era
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Is it reasonable to connect the Old Persian/Avestan word for "garden" with the Greek word?
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Why isn't there a letter for /b/ sound in Greek alphabet while they have the sound?
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How can unrelated language families exist after the evolution of language?
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What IPA Symbols Are Equivalent to Each of These Middle High German Diacritics?
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The reason why Semitic languages are written right to left
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The reason why Semitic languages are written right to left
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What's the difference between syntax and grammar?
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Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?
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State of language in the hunter-gatherer era of Europe / Levant?
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Representation of /o/ phoneme in Cuneiform
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Why do so many loan words have a different pronunciations of letters like X and Q (among others)?
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Why did the consonant clusters /ks/ and /ps/ merit their own designated letters in Ancient Greek?
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Is there a difference between a preterite and an aorist?
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What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?
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If there is a pattern to Chinese characters
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
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Why are the phonemes of Tutankhamun's throne name transliterated out of order?
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Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
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Is there a list of word meanings that are universally represented in all languages?
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Is there a list of word meanings that are universally represented in all languages?
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Why did Japanese borrow words for simple numbers from Chinese?
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Why did Japanese borrow words for simple numbers from Chinese?
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Are there any natural languages in which /ʂ/ and /ʃ/ are distinct phonemes?
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Is there a language in which feminine is the unmarked gender?
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Why does πεντάμορφη mean "beautiful"?
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Is there any superstrate influence of Old East Norse left in East Slavic languages?
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I'm having trouble understanding chomskyan linguistics
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What about the hypothesis that the Hebrew and Arabic definite articles both evolved from a proto-Semitic word for "god"?
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Which non-Indoeuropean languages have noun-adjective agreement?
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Validity of aging estimation for Proto-Afro-Asiatic
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Which non-Indoeuropean languages have noun-adjective agreement?
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Apparent sound crespondences between Eurasian, Trans-New-Guinean, Pama-Nyungan and Burushaski
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c- in Irish clann "offspring"
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Are there languages with verb tenses, but no conjugation?
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What linguistic evidence is there in support of/in opposition to the account of the Tower of Babel?
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How to distinguish Korean "ㅔ" /e/ and "ㅐ" /ɛ/?
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Why doesn't Hindi evolve to suit modern times?
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Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation
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How does L. "quartus" come from L. "quattuor", which has "quat" but "quart"?
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Why are letters with a stroke not decomposed in Unicode?
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Why were words for the four cardinal directions in Romance languages borrowed from Old English?
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Diphthongs and macrons in Hawaiian
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What is the term for a thing instantiated by saying it?
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Why isn’t it obvious that the grammars of natural languages cannot be context-free?
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What about the sound change initial n -> initial l?
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How does historical linguistics reconstruct languages that have no written record?
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How close are the Italian and the Romanian open central unrounded vowels?
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Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?
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