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29 Questions

Can Old Church Slavonic be considered an artificial language?

Are analytic languages easier to learn compared to synthetic languages?

Why is [ð] so rare?

What is the cause of difference between British and American pronunciation?

Are false cognates something languages tend to create?

How are words sorted in brain? [closed]

Do languages tend to lose the distinction between formal and informal language?

What exactly does the ding-dong theory of the origin of language state, according to Max Müller?

Where can I find a comprehensive list of priming connections?

What is motivatedness?

How far is Natural semantic metalanguage really natural?

Is there any language which doesn't have “hello”, “thank you” or “please”? [closed]

Do grammatically close languages tend to begin to use literal translations of some words in other senses in that other language?

Name of the theory of lexical semantics that distinguishes consonants by the values “up” and “down”?

Term for “regional linguistics”?

Is there a language that uses some kind of second layer traits (signs of a two-dimensional character)?

Could the proto-human language still play a role in the interlingual communication?

Is it possible to detect onomatopoeic basis in indigenous languages?

Why does inflection in any language sound so natural? [closed]

Is it plausible there will be an established form of European English in the future?

Why is Indonesian Google Translator voice so much better than English?

Can languages merge together? [duplicate]

Are phonemes worse recognizable in English than in Czech?

Is there a document with all the inflection forms of all the world languages?

How do language differences develop? [closed]

Name of the act of borrowing linguistic concepts from different languages

Why do I feel like “g” should mutate to “dz”?

Are there tribes speaking Indonesian?

Do Chinese minorities speak Chinese as a native language?