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29	Do the Khoisan languages resemble the world's first language?
25	Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?
23	Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?
22	Why do languages not share a root for “butterfly”?
20	Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers

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+10	Why do languages not share a root for “butterfly”?
+10	What is the relationship between the PIE roots dekṃ and kṃtóm?
+10	Why does “half” not follow the pattern of ordinal numbers across languages?
+10	Are the Finnish pronouns related to their Indo-European counterparts?

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15	Why are consonants distinguished differently than vowels?
14	What language, if any, do deaf people think in?
14	Is there an IPA character for the sympathetic sucking in sound?
14	Are some languages known to have taken grammatical features etc rather than just lexicon from their substrate languages?
12	Are there any languages in which verbs are a closed class?

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25 etymology × 5	16 nouns × 3
23 linguistic-typology × 4	15 vowels × 3
19 syntax × 8	15 consonants × 2

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40	Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions
38	What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
36	Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?
29	Lists of linguistic resources
23	What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

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