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How languages compare with the number of different syllables from all words?
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Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3
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Is there such a thing as an L colored vowel?
Awarded Jul 5, 2020 at 19:57
Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
Awarded Jun 30, 2020 at 18:46
What is the difference between case and adpositions?
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Does the letter p in a word mean that the word is not Germanic?
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Are there languages where a change of character casing can lead to a different meaning of a word?
Awarded May 23, 2020 at 14:57
Are some human languages significantly less ambiguous than others?
Awarded May 16, 2020 at 5:10
Why does English have words from Latin and none from Celtic?
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What is "=" in transcriptions of Hittite
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Why are the orthographies of Ancient/Proto Languages so Impractical?
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Why do most languages have a different form for singular vs plural nouns?
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Is there a linguistics term meaning "it's grammatically correct, but nobody says that"?
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Does knowing PIE roots help with vocab?
Awarded Jan 27, 2020 at 16:40
Are words classified (PoS) according to their use in a sentence, or does classification precede usage?
Awarded Jan 6, 2020 at 14:45
Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
Awarded Dec 16, 2019 at 17:30
Reconstructed PIE grammar? Could we be able to speak in Proto-European?
Awarded Dec 9, 2019 at 11:05
Are there any Latin and (ancient) Hebrew words with common origins?
Awarded Dec 5, 2019 at 14:15
Can a natural language be non-serializable?
Awarded Dec 4, 2019 at 15:35
What is the meaning of the Latin names of grammatical cases (in general, not in Latin)?
Awarded Nov 25, 2019 at 0:05
Is -s for plurals in Spanish a false cognate with English -s?
Awarded Nov 19, 2019 at 17:15
Estimating the number of words in a language before invention of alphabet
Awarded Oct 25, 2019 at 19:55
Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?
Awarded Oct 15, 2019 at 8:15
Do any languages mark social distinctions other than gender and status?
Awarded Oct 14, 2019 at 12:25
Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
Awarded Oct 10, 2019 at 10:00
Latin "vivere" vs. Hebrew "aviv"
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Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?
Awarded Sep 30, 2019 at 4:50
Is the order of words purely based on convention?
Awarded Sep 23, 2019 at 1:10
Spelling of laryngeals in Proto-Indo-European
Awarded Sep 13, 2019 at 8:35
Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
Awarded Sep 9, 2019 at 17:25
Why can linguists decide which use of language is correct and which is not?
Awarded Sep 9, 2019 at 3:15
Is future tense in English really a myth?
Awarded Sep 6, 2019 at 1:35
Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Awarded Sep 5, 2019 at 7:00
Are language and thought the same?
Awarded Sep 4, 2019 at 1:10
Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
Awarded Aug 23, 2019 at 12:25
What are some interesting features that are common cross-linguistically but don't exist in English?
Awarded Aug 23, 2019 at 2:00
Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
Awarded Jul 6, 2019 at 10:00
How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?
Awarded Jul 2, 2019 at 8:50
What is the history of ‘history’?
Awarded Jun 15, 2019 at 13:20
Origin of "boor"
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Non-African Click Languages
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
Awarded May 20, 2019 at 7:30
Why is vowel phonology represented in a trapezoid instead of a square?
Awarded May 16, 2019 at 7:00
from ekwos to ippo : transition from kw to p in greek
Awarded May 8, 2019 at 21:10
What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)?
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How to split IPA spelling into syllables
Awarded Mar 20, 2019 at 11:10
Why proto-languages?
Awarded Mar 7, 2019 at 15:30
Pronunciation of umlaut vowels in the history of German
Awarded Mar 1, 2019 at 1:01
How did Ancient Greek 'πυρ' become English 'fire?'
Awarded Feb 28, 2019 at 16:10
Is it possible to have a word-based language completely without word inflection?
Awarded Feb 9, 2019 at 14:20
Do dead languages borrow words?
Awarded Feb 5, 2019 at 15:00
Which came first in Greek: λήθη, or Λήθη the proper noun?
Awarded Feb 3, 2019 at 4:50
Why was apostrophe so vaguely used in Early Modern English?
Awarded Feb 2, 2019 at 22:40
Borrowing words along with the articles or other grammatical parts (like Spanish from Arabic)
Awarded Jan 25, 2019 at 18:15
Do most languages have the same basic verb tenses?
Awarded Jan 18, 2019 at 2:20
Is "be" always a copular verb or there are instances of it being the predicate?
Awarded Dec 13, 2018 at 13:15
Why does Polish use "w" instead of "v"?
Awarded Dec 13, 2018 at 13:10
Origin of h as a modifier letter
Awarded Nov 13, 2018 at 19:20
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