Yellow Sky

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50	Is there any language that uses different pronouns for "we" depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group?
46	Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
44	Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?
44	Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc?
35	Are there languages without words for "father" or "mother" but only "parent"?

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-2	Is Mongolian "шинэ" / "ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ", meaning "new", a borrowing of Chinese "新"?
+10	What's the name of the principle that derives the sound of a symbol from the name of the thing that that the symbol depicts?
+20	What is "mupigane" in Swahili?
+10	Why is there no nuqta in Malayalam? How are Perso-Arabic consonants written in Malayalam script?

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10	Any reasons for unexplained centumization in Balto-Slavic?
3	Root reduplication to mean singular

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181 list-of-languages × 21	94 sanskrit × 9
163 english × 30	85 written-language × 14
103 orthography × 18	67 names × 6
99 writing-systems × 15	66 latin × 11

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40	Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
32	Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?
23	How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak?
20	Can the IPA represent all languages' tones?
19	What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?

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