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Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English?

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Which languages have different words for "maternal uncle" and "paternal uncle"?

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Relationship between Geneva and gin?

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How does ghetto talk work in tonal languages?

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Is use of sorting expected and used in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)?

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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

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Why the words for pineapple sound so similar in Hebrew and in German?

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Do words Deus and idea share the root?

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Why are some linguists and other people very much against conlangs?

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Are there any languages with only front vowels?

10 votes

Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?

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Japanese kun'yomi with final N?

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Trying to make sense of "...but voiced obstruents are not always voiced"

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Do stressed (in e.g. English) or pitched (in e.g. Japanese) phones contribute to different phonemes?

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Etymology of ぐるぐる

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Are English 'gay' and Norwegian 'gøy' cognates?

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Are there any purely monosyllabic languages in use today?

7 votes

Transform Chinese, Korean, Hebrew and Arabic to IPA

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Is there a voiced-unvoiced pair for R or L in any language?

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Is there any language where verb inflection takes place word-initially?

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Is by - near - related to bi - double?

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Is a full stop a morpheme?

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Is a word form defined solely by its grapheme sequence? Can two lexemes have a shared word form?

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What are all of the possible punctuation that are used within words in the majority of languages?

4 votes

Politeness particles `krap`/`ka`

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Idioms in Sign Languages

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What does the tongue do to discriminate sibilant vs. non-sibilant?

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Components that comprise a syllable

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Are numerical digits logograms, ideograms or both?

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Is there a formal term for when a word begins to be used in a broader sense than the original sense?

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