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How many people of the world does the "switch language" icon cover?
I've noticed this icon popping up in a few places, to mean "languages":
I'm curious how many languages of the world this icon covers. Of course it would cover English, and indeed any ...
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What are the high and low letters in the Unicode Arabic block?
For example, we have:
ٴ : high hamza, as opposed to regular hamza ء
ء: small high meem, as opposed to regular meem م
U+0616: ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH
U+0615: ARABIC SMALL ...
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Is 'x' the written form for the speech sound ɛks in this sentence?
Consider the following spoken sentence written in phonetic transcription:
lɛt ɛks dɪˈnəʊt ən ˈɛlɪmənt ɒv ðə sɛt ------------1
(I don't know how to do phonetic transcriptions, I used a website for ...
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Is there really any difference between the words Pictography, Ideography, Symbols and Picture-symbols?
I am currently absorbed in Megg's history for Graphic design and I came across certain terms that seem to have incredibly ambiguous meaning (Pictography, Ideography, Symbols & Signs) and one that ...
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Are there commonly accepted graphic symbols for common declension forms?
Some linguistic declension forms are found in many languages:
Gender
Singular / Plural
Past, Present, Future
Indication, Condition, Imperation
Case: Nominative, Accusative, Dative etc.
Is there a ...
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Evolution of the latin capital and small letters [closed]
So, let us divide the letters into four categories.
Ii Kk Ll Vv Ww Xx Zz are all made of straight lines.
Cc Oo Ss are all made of curves.
Bb Dd Gg Jj Pp Qq Rr Uu are made of both straight lines and ...
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Are there any evocative dictionaries?
There are analogical dictionaries which list words and phrases related to a topic.
And there are symbolic dictionaries which explain what a thing represents.
But I have not found a dictionary that ...
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Are there examples of symbols similar to modern emoji or emoticons that were used before 20th century?
In other words, any symbols (ideograms) used to convey emotions that fit the description of "ancient emoji".
I'm mostly interested in ancient and medieval attested symbols, but anything from before ...
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why does chinese have multi-symbol words and often seem to lack single-symbol word synonyms?
Character based language seems like such a wonderful concept; Instead of describing concepts in multiple symbols using an alphabet, and decode the symbol based on sounds(then throw in a bunch of ...
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What does " *! " mean?
What does the symbol *! mean when it is referred to the constraints ONSET and NoCODA?
For example in my professor's notes, when /CVCV/ is syllabified as CVC.V, both ONSET and NoCODA take the symbol *!...
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How are algebraic operations written in a right-to-left language?
Arabic is a right-to-left language, so when using Google Translate to translate this expression:
x/y
from English to Arabic, it returns
س / ص
where 'x' is on the right, 'y' is on the left.
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Do different languages use different sign language?
Or the concept of the word is what's being communicated through signs, but not the word itself?
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Giving grammar without useless symbols / ε-productions
I hope some people here are firm with computational linguistics, since I couldn't find any question here about this topic yet.
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As the title says, I'm trying to give an equivalent ...
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Do symbols include only morphemes?
According to Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, by John Lyons (Chapter 1), a symbol is a sign whose form is arbitrarily or conventionally associated with its meaning. Also, linguistic signs, ...
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unicode symbol(s) for a long syllable in a Latin text
I want to write the following line (Ovid, Metamorphoses, X.30) with its metric peculiarity :
per Chaos hoc ingēns uāstīque silentia rēgnī
(something like : By this huge void and these vast and ...
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Symbols for IPA categories
In IPA a consonant can have different places of articulation such as Bilabial, Labio-dental, Dental etc.
I want to create a IPA chart that doesn't take much space. For that purposes the words are too ...
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What language is this character from? [closed]
A colleague of mine owns a ring and asked me what language this character is from:
I speak Japanese so I could pretty much rule out that and Chinese (her first guess). It's not Korean nor Thai either;...
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Should emoticons be considered punctuation?
Following on from my previous question Are "txt-speak" and "emoticons" examples of normal language evolution? I would like to propose that emoticons are simply now symbols of ...
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Is there any symbol to represent an unknown vowel?
Is there any symbol to represent a vowel?
Is there any symbol to represent a constant?
For example "bog", "bat" and "bag" can be represented by b[v][c] or b✦✧.
Udate:
In a paper I want to describe ...
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Could a constructed non-symbolic language be created?
Would the proper term for it really be "non-symbolic language"?
Every language up until now uses symbols at various forms – vowel sounds and consonants are symbols; syllables, which are ...
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In use numeral systems
In addition to Western and Eastern Arabic numeral symbols is there any other numeral symbols in active use nowadays? There is 460 decimal (46 numeral set) and 224 non-decimal number in Unicode, which ...
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