User Janus Bahs Jacquet

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Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language?

answered Jun 10, 2014 at 6:47

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Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’

answered Jul 31, 2022 at 17:29

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Is there a reason that /w/ isn't represented on the IPA chart?

answered Aug 9, 2020 at 21:00

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Why are some Old English suffixes marked with a preceding asterisk?

answered Dec 31, 2020 at 11:20

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Are there languages with more vowels than consonants?

answered Apr 21 at 10:48

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Why does πεντάμορφη mean "beautiful"?

answered Aug 24 at 16:20

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Question about Chinese stress

answered Apr 24, 2022 at 13:54

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What is the linguistic term for referring to a big group by the name of just one of its contents?

answered Jun 22, 2021 at 16:25

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c- in Irish clann "offspring"

answered Sep 20, 2015 at 10:08

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Is it reasonable to connect the Old Persian/Avestan word for "garden" with the Greek word?

answered Aug 28 at 14:49

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Proto-Indo-European transcription: <u̯, i̯> vs. <w, j> & <k̑> vs. <ḱ>, etc

answered Apr 7 at 10:52

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What sound or letter does this Ogham letter represent?

answered Aug 6 at 9:09

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Are there any case-based languages in which the modal verbs do not change the verb they control to the infinitive form?

answered Nov 11, 2022 at 23:30

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Are there languages without non-finite verb forms at all?

answered Apr 28 at 14:22

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Why is "knife" in Ukrainian different from other Slavic languages?

answered Oct 7 at 0:16

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What sound does the character 'u' in the Proto-Slavic word *bura (storm) represent?

answered Jun 2 at 17:38

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Etymological link between “govern” and “born”

answered Aug 2 at 15:26

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Etymology of some Romance languages' verbs meaning "to sleep"

answered Apr 8, 2020 at 21:54

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How do you decode the CELT transcriptions?

answered May 5, 2020 at 19:35

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Why do some Vietnamese words have the tone marking on the last letter?

answered May 28 at 10:27

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Looking for examples of natural languages with affricates but no corresponding fricatives/plosives

answered Nov 11 at 0:07

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About similarity of sounds in Swedish and Danish

answered Nov 16 at 10:52

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Pronunciation of ‘hₐ’ in PIE

answered Nov 26 at 14:46

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Are there natural languages with the following properties (seen in Esperanto)?

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 17:49

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Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?

answered Jun 28, 2021 at 9:02

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Why does PIE *weydtos give PGmc wīsaz not wīssaz?

answered May 4, 2022 at 20:01

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Is there a language with no gender for family relationships?

answered Jan 7, 2015 at 20:33

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Arguments for the significance of the Irish language

answered May 30 at 18:08

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Is this diagram accurate for [ɾʲ]

answered Oct 13 at 22:56

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what does +cont mean in phonological rules

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42 Answers

Why is English classified as a Germanic rather than Romance language?

Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’

Is there a reason that /w/ isn't represented on the IPA chart?

Why are some Old English suffixes marked with a preceding asterisk?

Are there languages with more vowels than consonants?

Why does πεντάμορφη mean "beautiful"?

Question about Chinese stress

What is the linguistic term for referring to a big group by the name of just one of its contents?

c- in Irish clann "offspring"

Is it reasonable to connect the Old Persian/Avestan word for "garden" with the Greek word?

Proto-Indo-European transcription: <u̯, i̯> vs. <w, j> & <k̑> vs. <ḱ>, etc

What sound or letter does this Ogham letter represent?

Are there any case-based languages in which the modal verbs do not change the verb they control to the infinitive form?

Are there languages without non-finite verb forms at all?

Why is "knife" in Ukrainian different from other Slavic languages?

What sound does the character 'u' in the Proto-Slavic word *bura (storm) represent?

Etymological link between “govern” and “born”

Etymology of some Romance languages' verbs meaning "to sleep"

How do you decode the CELT transcriptions?

Why do some Vietnamese words have the tone marking on the last letter?

Looking for examples of natural languages with affricates but no corresponding fricatives/plosives

About similarity of sounds in Swedish and Danish

Pronunciation of ‘hₐ’ in PIE

Are there natural languages with the following properties (seen in Esperanto)?

Where are these Danish sounds in IPA?

Why does PIE *weydtos give PGmc wīsaz not wīssaz?

Is there a language with no gender for family relationships?

Arguments for the significance of the Irish language

Is this diagram accurate for [ɾʲ]

what does +cont mean in phonological rules