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I am a software developer, who also happens to have a great many other interests in life. One of them is linguistics (and languages in general). My native language is Portuguese and, at the moment, I'm commited to the Portuguese Language & Usage proposal. If you love that language and admire its tradition as much as I do, please commit to it and be part of a great lusophone community!

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Do the Khoisan languages resemble the world's first language?
Oct 3, 2011
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Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?
Oct 24, 2011
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Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?
Oct 30, 2011
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Why do languages not share a root for "butterfly"?
Jan 14, 2012
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How powerful is literacy to slow down language change?
Jan 10, 2012
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What is the relationship between the PIE roots *dekṃ and *kṃtóm?
Oct 12, 2011
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Which phenomena compensate for sound losses in languages?
Sep 14, 2011
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Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers
Sep 14, 2011
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Is it possible to predict language changes?
Sep 23, 2011
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How does alcohol affect the ability to speak a second language?
May 8, 2012
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Old English instead of Latin in early Britain