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Sanskrit pangram joke?
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Who decides the phonemes of a given language?
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Does the Telugu script have near perfect phonemic orthography?
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Is the consonant [b] always voiced across languages? What about [p]?
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The breakdown of the word “strength” or “cheap” or “sheep”
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How to extract Subject, Object, Verb through a parser
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Why are J, U, W considered part of the basic Latin Alphabet?
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Why do some alphabets have special final forms for some letters?
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is the percentage of people studying constructed languages increasing?
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Gender-specific pronouns in languages without grammatical gender?
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Which makes more more effective vocabulary practice: L1 -> L2 or L2 -> L1?
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Is DNA a language?
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Creating Unicode Characters for new language
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Why is the concept of double articulation (André Martinet) so important in the study of linguistics?
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Is there a term for the syntax difference between English “I like you” and Spanish “Tú me gustas”?
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Days of the week in Yiddish — why so similar to Germanic?
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Is there a technical name for when languages use masculine pronouns to refer to both men and women?
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“Character sets” for top 100 languages (as opposed to Unicode)
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What parentheses and tildes mean in IPA / phonology chart
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External sandhi rule for final visarga followed by r?
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Subtypes of Standard Average European
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etymology - voodoo/jadoo
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Pronunciation of P in Latin, versus Ph in Greek
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In which languages does “right” mean both a direction and “correct” (or another positive meaning)? [duplicate]
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Are different varieties of German closer to each other than different Slav languages?
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Question about usage of Swedish words “som” and “vem” [closed]
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Tone Languages and distinguishing meaning
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Are there any fundamental differences in personal pronoun acquisition across languages?
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How to differentiate an East Anglian accent from a West Country accent?
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Are “nine” and “new” etymologically or historically connected?
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Are there any diacritics not on the top or bottom of a letter?
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Terminology for a group of words derived from a common stem?
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Why the prevalence of “ph” in transliteration?
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If similar phonemes are pronounced the same, will this be difficult to understand for a native speaker?
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Introducing 1 more language to a trilingual baby at home
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What is ''syntactic behavior"?
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Relative Clause Tree Diagram
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Are complement clauses with finite verbs noun phrases?
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Which methodology is use for comparative study between two languages?
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Add-1 laplace smoothing for bigram implementation8
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How fast is the number of languages spoken today decreasing/increasing?
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Where is the Slavic homeland, according to linguists, and how do they know that?
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Are the longest German and Turkish words really single words?
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Why in most (all?) languages don't adjectives have gender independently of the nouns they modify?
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Why are some Russian and Swedish words so strikingly similar? Два - två, по-шведски - på svenska, etc
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“Den” or “det” in Swedish
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Languages with different words for 'we'
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Looking for comparison of Lao (or Thai) and Zhuang languages
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When is variation in the realisation of a phoneme allophonic variation?
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Lists of linguistic resources
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Why is vowel phonology represented in a trapezoid instead of a square?
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A Lesson in Transcribing Egyptian Hieroglyphics
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Parts of speech in a language
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Why are some Old English suffixes marked with a preceding asterisk?
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Why do Spanish and Greek have such a similar phonology?
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Why isn't “N” considered a partial vowel
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Why are vocal cord vibrations quasi periodic and not periodic?
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Which is closer to Biblical Hebrew - Modern Hebrew, or Modern Arabic?
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How Standard Average European is Modern Hebrew?
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Are there languages in which two or all three of /χ/, /x/, and /ç/ are opposed as distinct phonemes?
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