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Why does Gothic hūhjan have long ū?
Why does Gothic hūhjan (which is cognate with hiuhma, hauhs) have long ū?
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Old Norse Weak Adjectives
In Old Norse, the weak plural forms of adjectives is "-u"(except for dative). This is the case in all genders, like how Common West Germanic forms seem to be "*-ōn".
What are the ...
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How do I tell apart voiced and unvoiced plosives after a stop with no audible release?
I'm making a conlang and I want it to differentiate voiced, breathy voiced, unvoiced, and unvoiced aspirated plosives, but I'm having trouble telling apart the pronunciation of voiced/unvoiced when it ...
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Why do Germanic languages signal stressed short vowels by writing orthographically closed syllables?
In learning spelling and pronunciation rules for English, German, and Swedish, I always assumed that Germanic languages tend to distinguish stressed short and long vowels according to orthographic ...
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Origin of "will" in Germanic, wouldn't it be subjunctive?
Small print: This is language specific about English, but tangential to Germanic to a certain degree that is likely out of ELU's scope. .
As a follow-up to this Q and several ones like it about the ...
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Need online resources to compare the pronunciation in Latin, Old French and Old English
I'm looking for resources giving old French pronunciation, for instance as IPA.
I know that the pronunciation of old French is quite regular, but I cannot find a dictionary with pronunciations.
I ...
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dictionary middle norwegian
I try to help somebody with research on the influence of Middle Low German on Middle Norwegian.
For that purpose, a number of documents from the Norwegian Corpus ([Diplomatarium Norvegicum]) are ...
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Why does the English Alphabet sometimes function like a syllabary?
One of the things that I never really noticed growing up until I began learning about other languages and the elegance of writing systems is how, in America for sure, we use letters like syllabic ...
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Lack of umlaut in Standard Dutch Plurals
I've never paid much attention to Dutch, but I've noticed in comparisons such as charts that Dutch does not have plurals formed with an umlaut.
Hence:
Feet—Füße—voeten
I thought it was odd, and when I ...
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Old Norse kné: a- stem or wa- stem?
The neuter noun kné follows a-stem declension.
But it comes from Proto-Germanic *knewą. This seems to be a wa-stem.
Then why does it follow a-stem declension? Did Scandinavians force it to, even ...
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Schwa syncope in "hundred"
My girlfriend noticed that I say when I pronounce a word like 'hundred' it sounds like I'm deleting the schwa sound in the final syllable and pronouncing the word mroe like, "hundrd". Does this fall ...
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Do Germanic languages have partitive case?
Finnish, among a few other languages, is known for its partitive case. I have been told that in some Germanic language, partitive case is required whenever SV-order is absent. SV-order is absent, e.g.,...
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Do all languages with pre-positional articles have zero-articles if they don't have post-positional articles?
To clarify, pre-positional articles are the articles positioned before a noun they refer to, like English the or a(n).
Post-positional articles are those positioned after a noun they refer to, like ...
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What free objective tools can be used for assessing pronunciation?
I'm also interested in fluency and intonation.
Any insights will be wonderful.
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How to check if the first /r/ or /j/ sound is elided in "February"?
I've just learnt that there is more than one way to pronounce the word "February":
/ˈfebyuˌweri/
/ˈfebuˌweri/
/ˈfebruˌweri/
And some other variations with /u/ being reduced to schwa.
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