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I've been working as a teacher of English and German for more than 15 years already. Linguistics is my life-long passion, I can speak and read lots of languages. Malay and Manju are the languages I love most and the ones I'm studying at the moment. My native languages are Ukrainian and Russian.

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48 Is there any language that uses different pronouns for “we” depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group? Sep 23 '15
44 Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc? Feb 19 '15
35 Are there languages without words for “father” or “mother” but only “parent”? Jun 18 '17
26 Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages? Sep 4 '19
24 What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian? Apr 21 '17
21 Is Thai language related or a descendant of Sanskrit? Apr 6 '17
20 Are there languages with no first person? Jun 28 '16
18 Why are many ancient languages so complicated compared to many modern languages? Jan 14 '14
14 Why do languages with such different alphabets use the same common punctuation marks? Jan 3 '15
13 Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row? Dec 4 '14
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