Linguistics

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Why did Modern Tamil reduce its alphabet from Middle Tamil to Old Tamil?
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When is a conjunction not a conjunction?
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Origin of Latin Non-Finite Verbal Endings
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What language has the longest word for 'no' and 'yes'?
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Can Ernie's laughter be classified phonetically?
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/o/ -> /u/ change in Persian xānum خانم ‘mistress’
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Two questions about language evolution (primarily PIE and proto-nostratic)
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What is the name for this phenomenon, and what are some other examples of it?
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How do languages express multiple simultaneous applicatives?
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Is there a connection between the Sumerian En and the Semite El?
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How to read a spectrogram?
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How can you establish that a word is a proform?
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Gender-specific pronouns in languages without grammatical gender?
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Is there a word for a question which is meant to sow doubt?
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In what ways might dependency grammar be a better fit for free word order languages?
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Is there an API that converts a word into an IPA Transcriptions?
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Distinction between Chemistry and Alchemy in Arabic and Farsi languages
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The phonological rules of metathesis and epenthesis
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(PIE) déḱm̥ vs déḱm̥t (ten)
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Corpus with sentences translated to English
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Questions about the "Hand of Irulegi"
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Etymology (?) of the "shush" gesture
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Term for conversational actions meant to influence emotional state
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Corpus with sentences translated to English
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Are nouns ever a closed class?
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Aspiration of p, t, k in English
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Is there a French IPA translator for free?
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Why do we use an upward inflection when asking questions?
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does modern Hebrew have spelling pronunciations?
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Formal definition of English grammar
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What is "H5" in Egyptian?
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Why does anger has something to do with spleen in both Chinese and English?
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Is this Wikipedia Arabic dialects map correct about Badawi Arabic, and what is Badawi Arabic?
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4 or 5: is thumb a finger? Distribution across languages
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Languages with Many Color Words for Value or Chroma
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What is the origin of certain Hungarian suffixes?
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Why is reconstructed PIE so typologically unusual?
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How did the English word inveigle evolve from the Latin aboculus?
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Is there any language that doesn't express Tense but allows "aspectual coercion"?
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Are there languages that wouldn't use present tense to describe what is in a picture?
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Why does capitalization exist?
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What are the different schools of PIE reconstruction?
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Are there examples of inclusive and exclusive "our"?
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Onomatopoeia origin of language?
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Is it possible to detect onomatopoeic basis in indigenous languages?
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Current prospective efforts in the decipherment of ancient scripts
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Was the Thai letter ด really derived from ต?
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Why does the Portuguese language sound similar to French language to me?
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How to localize country names in phrases?
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Earlier stages of definite/indefinite conjugations in Hungarian
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Split a sentence using nltk and python
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Do bilinguals have smaller vocabularies in each language than monolinguals?
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Is there a term for a question that is not rhetorical?
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Why didn't a single language predominate China, Japan, Korea?
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Is there a database or standard (ISO etc.) which maps Unicode or ISO-15924 scripts with the ISO-639/Glottolog etc. languages that use them
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Which languages have three noun classes corresponding to men, women and a third gender?
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Do a classification of words with two or more stressed syllables exist?
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Which Frisian language/dialect is the most similar to Modern English?
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Old Norse name for Balts (Baltic people)?
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