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Comparisons across (as opposed to within) languages or language families.
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What languages like Chinese are composed out of a limited set of syllables?
It appears Chinese has about 400 syllables (1600 if you include tones):
https://www.quora.com/Are-all-Chinese-words-one-syllable
https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/14596/how-many-syllables-d …
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What parts of speech are common across every language?
I am trying to make a word game, and part of it requires dividing the words into types. I want it it to work across any language, but so far I can only see 3 things that seem to exist in every languag …
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All the punctuation features across languages
Wondering what features of language or writing that languages across the world transcribe into so-called "punctuation".
To clarify what I mean, I don't mean a list of every punctuation character in e …
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What is the consensus on how words are formed across cultures (generally)?
I just did a basic exercise of trying to define a new word. Let's take Tibetan for example, but the language for this question doesn't matter. I tried starting at the base components, like /ka/ ཀ and …
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What are all the primary variants of these languages? [closed]
In order to make the transliterator more precise, it looks like I am going to need to distinguish between different versions of a language. My question is, is this the complete list of languages and t …
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When/how did "articles" like "the" first appear in language?
I am wondering this sort of cross-linguistically. I know many (most?) languages don't have a word for "the", but the English language does. First part of the question is, did Middle English and Old En …
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How do we know for sure a transliteration is lossless?
Looking at this it says it's lossless (Wylie Transliteration).
ག ga
ང nga
ཉ nya
ན na
What if you had sequences like ནག (ng, or is it naga)? Is it lossless because we can guarantee that ever …
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How do the various different word orders handle 3 and 4 argument verbs?
If a 2-argument verb is like "to light", as in "I light the candle", a SOV might say it equivalent to "I the candle light", and a VSO might do "light I the candle". But how do languages with 3 or 4 wo …
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Why don't currently spoken languages have words for everything they encounter?
I have been getting translations of what I would consider are fairly basic words, into various languages, and have found some don't have translations and they either make up a translation on the spot …
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Is there any notion of a single "standard" dialect in various languages?
I am thinking of "standard languages" in the sense of normalized pronunciation of words within a language (English, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic). I know for one in English there are at least 2 "standards" …
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What is the purpose of transliteration?
On the Wylie Tibetan Transliteration page (original paper), it says:
Previous transcription schemes sought to split the difference with the result that they achieved neither goal perfectly. Wylie …
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How important is syntax to translation?
I don't know that much but I am trying to do this programmatically. I have observed that in order to programmatically translate a document, you can't just translate word for word or even sentence for …
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What is the difference between m̥, mʰ, and mʱ?
I am looking at Help:IPA/Nguni and Help:IPA/Welsh, and wondering what the exact difference is between these sounds, and if there are any good audio recordings (or if you can make one!) showing how the …
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What sort of "root" patterns do languages have that don't have infinitive verbs?
I am trying to gather the "base" form of verbs across languages. The form that is used to generate all the other various verb forms. But it seems some languages don't have infinitive forms of verbs, s …
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What are some example linguistic glosses for the early languages which lack definite article... [closed]
My working assumption is that definite articles evolve in language after much of more simpler language, though they can later be lost from a language as it evolves further. First, it appears to me tha …
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