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Alternatives to IPA?
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Is there any rule in Old English / Modern English a/o, a/oa transformation?
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Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
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Why Germanic languages are not generally as soft as other Indo-European languages? [closed]
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Why Germanic languages are not generally as soft as other Indo-European languages? [closed]
Awarded Feb 9 at 20:34
Aspiration of Voiceless Affricate in English
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 6:15
Egyptian Hieroglyphics: where are Champollion's proofs?
Awarded Sep 15, 2023 at 4:17
Two questions about language evolution (primarily PIE and proto-nostratic)
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 7:10
Can a new alphabet be created and added to the English language?
Awarded May 22, 2023 at 4:34
Why can't the internal argument of "matter" raise?
Awarded May 21, 2023 at 4:11
Welcome and bienvenidos
Awarded Mar 17, 2023 at 4:03
Pronunciation software?
Awarded Mar 12, 2023 at 4:42
Do classical Arabic verb forms have a passive-active relationship like some Hebrew "buildings" do?
Awarded Mar 8, 2023 at 15:26
What was a general called in ancient Egypt?
Awarded Dec 6, 2022 at 4:19
Is the German "conjunctive" the same as the "subjunctive" of other languages? If so why the different name?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 5:11
What is the origin of certain Hungarian suffixes?
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 5:16
Is 😂 a word/letter?
Awarded Oct 14, 2022 at 4:16
English vs. Esperanto (in grammar, vocabulary, semantics)
Awarded Jun 10, 2022 at 4:27
Where is the Slavic homeland, according to linguists, and how do they know that?
Awarded Jun 4, 2022 at 5:05
Measuring oral comprehensibility between different language
Awarded Apr 6, 2022 at 4:07
Is there a "maximal coda principle"?
Awarded Apr 6, 2022 at 4:07
Is there a difference between a preterite and an aorist?
Awarded Apr 2, 2022 at 4:30
Writing a phonological rule
Awarded Mar 24, 2022 at 4:35
Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3
Awarded Feb 6, 2022 at 4:50
Collocations frequency dictionary of English
Awarded Jan 6, 2022 at 5:33
Are there any languages with only one of "yes" or "no"?
Awarded Nov 4, 2021 at 4:41
Does Japanese have pronouns?
Awarded Oct 7, 2021 at 4:02
If someone grows up bilingually, with what accent will they speak a third language they learn as an adult?
Awarded Sep 26, 2021 at 4:48
Why do languages not share a root for "butterfly"?
Awarded Sep 19, 2021 at 4:15
Expressions derived from Italian mafia
Awarded Aug 31, 2021 at 4:16
Why does Latin, Turkish, and Albanian share common words?
Awarded Jul 22, 2021 at 5:07
For each IPA phone, are there animations or videos that depict the vocal tract during articulation?
Awarded Jul 16, 2021 at 4:16
When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
Awarded May 27, 2021 at 5:42
Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers
Awarded Apr 11, 2021 at 4:20
Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it - one more time on extending scope [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 25, 2021 at 4:02
Does the P versus NP conjecture in computer science have any direct relevance to linguistics?
Awarded Mar 9, 2021 at 4:55
How did these feminine mutations originate in Welsh?
Awarded Feb 17, 2021 at 4:12
Why do some languages have many names?
Awarded Dec 24, 2020 at 4:08
How different are Chinese dialects?
Awarded Sep 12, 2020 at 4:20
Is the concept of grammatical function related to inflexion?
Awarded Sep 3, 2020 at 4:55
Why aren't the number of syllables in constructed languages like Esperanto minimized?
Awarded Aug 9, 2020 at 4:32
Dark L vs L Vocalisation
Awarded Jul 14, 2020 at 7:05
What are "Auxilliary nouns" in Kyrgyz?
Awarded Jun 6, 2020 at 4:16
are what we translate as "adjectives", "nouns", etc, the same kind of words in no indo-european languages?
Awarded Jun 6, 2020 at 1:18
Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?
Awarded May 26, 2020 at 6:02
Use of the definite article in European vs. Brazilian Portuguese
Awarded Apr 29, 2020 at 5:21
Where on the Internet can I find sound files so that I can hear the alveo-palatal consonants?
Awarded Apr 15, 2020 at 5:55
Automated French/Italian/German to IPA transcription
Awarded Mar 2, 2020 at 4:45
Why do swear words mean the same thing in both English and Spanish (possibly more languages)
Awarded Jan 20, 2020 at 4:55
Why the prevalence of "ph" in transliteration?
Awarded Jan 13, 2020 at 4:10
Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
Awarded Dec 21, 2019 at 4:25
Did modern Farsi lose its casual word for yes?
Awarded Nov 24, 2019 at 4:40
Why does French "cheveu(x)" have "eu" and not "eau"?
Awarded Nov 24, 2019 at 4:40
Is there an English to Coptic translator online?
Awarded Nov 21, 2019 at 4:50
Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?
Awarded Nov 20, 2019 at 5:20
Why is the Romanian syntax for "Good night!" opposite to all the other Romance languages?
Awarded Nov 19, 2019 at 4:30
Iterated reduplication?
Awarded Nov 13, 2019 at 4:45
Would an extended alphabet have been a hindrance to inventing computer technology?
Awarded Nov 5, 2019 at 4:20
Are there practical reasons why languages developed left to right or right to left writing sytems
Awarded Oct 12, 2019 at 4:55
Instrumental - nominative inversion in Polish
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