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Worldwide map or data for linguistic distance?
Awarded Nov 24 at 8:41
Why do words like 'irregardless' and 'conversate' form?
Awarded Nov 8 at 23:18
Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
Awarded Oct 11 at 14:35
Languages which changed their writing direction
Awarded Sep 27 at 16:32
Hebrew "shemen" versus Latin "semen"
Awarded Jun 16 at 22:01
Do languages have any sort of upper limit for how long it takes to say things?
Awarded Apr 12 at 3:10
Are there languages with no first person?
Awarded Feb 16 at 1:51
Is there any evidence that the modern word for "bear" is an euphemism which replaced the original taboo word?
Awarded Dec 20, 2023 at 2:15
Why do many Arabic letters look exactly like other letters except for dots, yet have no similarity in sound?
Awarded Dec 6, 2023 at 22:36
Why isn't there a letter for /b/ sound in Greek alphabet while they have the sound?
Awarded Oct 12, 2023 at 0:40
Are the vast majority of Ukrainians more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian?
Awarded Sep 14, 2023 at 9:42
What linguistic evidence is there in support of/in opposition to the account of the Tower of Babel?
Awarded Aug 3, 2023 at 11:40
Is J. R. R. Tolkien's "translation" scheme found in real life?
Awarded May 5, 2023 at 0:37
Why doesn’t a language modernization initiative adopt pure phonetic spelling?
Awarded Mar 9, 2023 at 14:08
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Awarded Feb 24, 2023 at 21:40
How did the generic masculine emerge?
Awarded Feb 17, 2023 at 4:47
Stable words in the Indo-European language family
Awarded Feb 9, 2023 at 12:50
Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?
Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 10:50
What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word hamburger didn't refer to ham
Awarded Dec 1, 2022 at 18:42
What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word hamburger didn't refer to ham
Awarded Nov 30, 2022 at 16:26
Is there a term for when you use grammar from one language in another?
Awarded Nov 7, 2022 at 16:36
Why are "eat" and "drink" different words in languages?
Awarded Oct 11, 2022 at 18:46
Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 0:41
Is pronouncing loanwords according to their "native" pronunciation stigmatised across most cultures and languages?
Awarded Aug 26, 2022 at 15:02
Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns?
Awarded Aug 5, 2022 at 14:36
Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’
Awarded Aug 3, 2022 at 7:36
Why does “&” look nothing like e and t
Awarded Jun 15, 2022 at 9:57
Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
Awarded Jun 8, 2022 at 6:56
How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?
Awarded May 10, 2022 at 13:15
Is there a reason that /w/ isn't represented on the IPA chart?
Awarded May 5, 2022 at 17:15
Aren't all spoken languages tonal?
Awarded May 3, 2022 at 23:40
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Apr 24, 2022 at 12:11
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Apr 22, 2022 at 13:27
Why was "zh" picked to represent /ʒ/, and where does it come from?
Awarded Apr 13, 2022 at 21:22
How similar are Ukrainian and Russian?
Awarded Mar 29, 2022 at 4:21
Is there a language where people do not use weight for mass?
Awarded Mar 27, 2022 at 1:06
What is the proper definition of a verb?
Awarded Feb 23, 2022 at 11:19
Are some languages more advanced than others?
Awarded Feb 17, 2022 at 6:48
Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?
Awarded Jan 4, 2022 at 14:17
Why isn’t the letter “G” immediately after “C” in the alphabet?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 21:33
Do any languages use words like particles to represent commas, periods, hyphens, quotes, parentheses, etc.?
Awarded Dec 16, 2021 at 14:57
Automated French/Italian/German to IPA transcription
Awarded Dec 1, 2021 at 3:02
Why is it called proto-Germanic?
Awarded Oct 8, 2021 at 14:42
Why is it called proto-Germanic?
Awarded Oct 8, 2021 at 13:56
Why did some Hebrew words beginning with Yod become transliterated into Latin as "hi?"
Awarded Sep 30, 2021 at 0:41
/t͡ʃ/ vs. /ʧ/ vs. /tʃ/
Awarded Sep 28, 2021 at 12:57
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 29, 2021 at 21:04
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 17:26
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 7:07
Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Awarded Jul 23, 2021 at 6:32
Why were writing systems invented independently during roughly the same period across multiple civilizations?
Awarded Jun 8, 2021 at 11:57
In romance languages, are there examples of male names that derive from female names?
Awarded May 25, 2021 at 12:48
Why is the word "war" in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin?
Awarded May 18, 2021 at 21:11
Is there an effort to prove phonemes?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 23:28
Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?
Awarded May 4, 2021 at 16:26
What is the longest word without a vowel in any language?
Awarded Apr 19, 2021 at 18:56
How does the nonsense word "frabjous" conform to English phonotactics?
Awarded Apr 16, 2021 at 18:29
Which languages have different words for "maternal uncle" and "paternal uncle"?
Awarded Mar 13, 2021 at 4:31
Why are J, U, W considered part of the basic Latin Alphabet?
Awarded Feb 26, 2021 at 4:21
Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?
Awarded Feb 15, 2021 at 17:32
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