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

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

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Can the IPA represent all languages' tones?

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

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

parts-of-speech word-classes
Oct 8 '15 at 23:17 Franck Dernoncourt 1,366
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What are the reasons to count Armenian as an Indo-European language?

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Jan 27 at 21:50 Kewari 1
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Are there languages with no first person?

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

list-of-languages gender markedness
Nov 6 '15 at 2:25 Community♦ 1
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What is the difference between voiced and voiceless stop consonants?

phonetics voicing stops
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Languages with subordinate imperatives?

syntax morphology linguistic-typology
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Is there a standardized graphical encoding for cuneiform?

reference-request orthography cuneiform graphemics
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What is the difference between complements and adjuncts?

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How Standard Average European is Modern Hebrew?

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May 12 '18 at 19:46 Javier Arias 125
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Most succinct written language

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What does 6 represent in Medieval Welsh?

transcription welsh
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What numeral system is on this Hyderabad banknote?

numerals urdu
Oct 30 '16 at 18:48 Yellow Sky 12.5k
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Which language has verb/noun compounding features?

nlp parts-of-speech word-boundaries morphological-analysis
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Are Mongolian “хан” and “хаан” the same word despite the usually important difference in vowel length?

etymology orthography pronunciation vowel-length mongolian
Dec 16 '13 at 11:07 Manjusri 2,623
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Is it possible in Sanskrit to distinguish between the names Rāma and Rām i.e. राम and राम् when used in a sentence?

grammar cases sanskrit declension
Sep 28 at 8:41 bytebuster 7,881
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How come the Romanian verb for love iubi does not originate from the Latin iubeo

etymology romanian
Feb 27 '20 at 17:36 Community♦ 1
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Tabannusi in cuneiform script

written-language cuneiform akkadian
Dec 12 at 1:44 Ilmari Karonen 742
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Is there a collection of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic transliterations of foreign names/words?

resource-request egyptian rtransliteration
Jan 27 at 17:44 Draconis 40.5k
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Pronominalized adjectives in Lithuanian

adjectives definiteness lithuanian
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On Lao triphthongs / tones / orthography

vowels tone lao writing-systems triphthongs
Jun 9 '14 at 11:01 Yellow Sky 12.5k
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IPA: What is the significance of the “aah” after pause in pronunciations

pronunciation ipa
Jan 16 '16 at 6:02 user6726 55.6k
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Why are some (coda) clusters hard to pronounce in onsets?

english phonotactics consonant-clusters
Jun 7 at 23:11 vectory 1,409
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Resources for Indonesian/Austronesian etymology

etymology resource-request online-resources austronesian
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Mapping between Uchen, Devanagari and Lantsa help

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

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

language-acquisition
Jun 7 '16 at 18:06 lemontree♦ 5,691
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