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The study of past events. Use this tag if your linguistic question is also related to history.
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Why are there spelling inconsistencies in Spanish and Italian? What is the historical origin...
It is all about the spelling conventions in those languages. "Latin does not follow spelling changes" because the alphabet Latin uses was conceived specially for the Latin language, Latin spelling was …
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Can Old Church Slavonic be considered an artificial language?
Yes, Old Church Slavonic (OCS) was an artificial language, but just in a way.
Firstly, in the 9th century, when Cyrill and Methodius devised the OCS, all the Slavic languages and dialects were so clo …
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How did it happen that K was introduced to Latin alphabet in place of C and C started to mar...
The Old Latin alphabet had 3 letters for the sound [k]: C, K, and Q. K was used before A, Q before V (the shape U appeared later), and C elsewhere. Besides, C was also used for the sound [g]. Later, K …
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Why is October the tenth month even though Octo means eight?
The numerical names of months date back to the time when in the Ancient Rome the year began in March, so September was really the 7th month, October the 8th, and so on. January became the first month …
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How did Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov's cat help him decode Mayan?
Even the article you give a link to maintains it wasn't deciphering the Mayan script that Knorozov credited his cat with, it was his article ‘On Questions about Signaling Classification,’ 1973, which …
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Why do the Hebrew characters look so different from Greek, Latin, even Phoenician?
However, the modern Hebrew alphabet is not derived directly from Phoenician, it is in fact a modern form of the Aramaic alphabet which, in its own turn, was derived from Phoenician and had a long evolution history …
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Are there any extinct phonemes in Russian?
Perhaps the most Russian phonemes as well the most Russian phonemic oppositions are
ш /ʂ/ vs. щ /ɕː/
ж /ʐ/ vs. жж /ʑː/
[ɕː] and [ʑː] are correspndingly a voiceless and voiced long (geminated) alveol …
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