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Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?

How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak?

Can the IPA represent all languages' tones?

What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?

What parts of speech / word classes do languages most frequently lack?

What are the reasons to count Armenian as an Indo-European language?

Are there languages with no first person?

Is there a language in which feminine is the unmarked gender?

What is the difference between voiced and voiceless stop consonants?

Languages with subordinate imperatives?

Is there a standardized graphical encoding for cuneiform?

What is the difference between complements and adjuncts?

How Standard Average European is Modern Hebrew?

Most succinct written language

What does 6 represent in Medieval Welsh?

What numeral system is on this Hyderabad banknote?

Which language has verb/noun compounding features?

Are Mongolian “хан” and “хаан” the same word despite the usually important difference in vowel length?

Is it possible in Sanskrit to distinguish between the names Rāma and Rām i.e. राम and राम् when used in a sentence?

How come the Romanian verb for love iubi does not originate from the Latin iubeo

Tabannusi in cuneiform script

Is there a collection of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic transliterations of foreign names/words?

Pronominalized adjectives in Lithuanian

On Lao triphthongs / tones / orthography

IPA: What is the significance of the “aah” after pause in pronunciations

Why are some (coda) clusters hard to pronounce in onsets?

Resources for Indonesian/Austronesian etymology

Mapping between Uchen, Devanagari and Lantsa help

What tool was used to generate Vietnamese IPA entries on Wiktionary?

How do people learn a totally foreign language that has not been studied at all? [duplicate]