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What is a small language w.r.t. the number of speakers?
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Why do some languages have more speakers than others?
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/t͡ʃ/ vs. /ʧ/ vs. /tʃ/
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Is 😂 a word/letter?
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Sandhi [English]
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Complementary distribution and defective distribution
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What is the origin and meaning of the word/name "Idora"? (Shortened)
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Intransitive verbs that take Indirect objects
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What research has been done on the effects of learning Esperanto on acquiring other languages?
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Do I have copyright issues when making a corpus from the web?
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Does Biblical Hebrew have a plural of majesty?
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What is the etiology of the word for ‘pyramid’
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Are there grammatical analyses of languages that are extremely different from IE grammar?
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Percent of languages with the same word for hello and goodbye
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How does an original proto language produce its daughter languages?
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Is there really a perfect tense?
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Are words classified (PoS) according to their use in a sentence, or does classification precede usage?
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Do valid sentences of phrases that have different meanings in different languages exist? How are they called?
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What is the difference between grammaticalization and grammaticization?
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Can someone confirm the Lao language tones in the greeting "sabaidi" [closed]
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Is there a name for the type of word that the word, “scarecrow,” is? (a transitive verb conjoined with its object)
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Punctuation/Pause character in IPA
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Is there anything analogous to grammatical gender for verbs?
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Is it possible to predict language changes?
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What's the relationship between harmonics and formants?
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(Why) did the Thai script convert Sanskrit द /d/ to /th/ and then introduce its own character for /d/?
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Why was India as the homeland of PIE abandoned?
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What is the difference in a constituent and a phrase?
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Writing systems that do not preserve spoken order
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Was the word "Jew" originally a racial slur?
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Meta-operational grammar
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Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
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What does every verb have in common?
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Is Uralic Possibly a Branch of the Indo-European Branch?
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Origin of née in English speaking countries and the rise in usage of it [closed]
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What languages other than English distinguish 'poison' and 'venom'
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Do any languages contrast [r] and [r:]?
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Are there other pairs of languages that are as close grammatically despite not being in the same language family as Korean and Japanese?
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Etymology of Sanskrit नारक / नरक [nāraka / naraka]
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Any solid textbook recommendations to begin studying linguistics? [closed]
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
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Norwegian Translation Codes (no, nn, nb) - Which to use on a website?
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State-of-the-art spelling correction algorithms
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I have my hair cut - "my hair" a Direct Object?
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Which Romance Language is the least similar to Latin?
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Any languages that consider the alveolar and uvular trill distinct consonant phonemes?
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Do-So Tests for VPs and PPs
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Praat pitch and intensity and what they mean
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Why is the French accent so different from other Romance accents? [closed]
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Why r, h, and w aren't vowels
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Is ‘for’ a complementizer or a preposition in ‘prefer for John to stay’
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What is "˥˩" in the IPA?
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Why is the "long i" sound in English written /aɪ/?
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How do you draw a syntax tree for a sentence with a dummy subject?
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Which writing script can represent all human sounds?
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Does any living language contrast /kʷ/ and /kw/?
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Irregular penultimate stress in English words from classical sources
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Are there any linguistic toollkits for PowerShell or .NET?
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Why were writing systems invented independently during roughly the same period across multiple civilizations?
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