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Is the schwa sound consistent?

May 10 '19 at 9:28

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Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?

Feb 6 '19 at 13:26

26

Is there some relationship between the modern u and μ?

May 18 '17 at 19:35

25

In romance languages, are there examples of male names that derive from female names?

Aug 1 '18 at 4:15

25

Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did

Dec 8 '16 at 0:27

23

Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?

Oct 26 '17 at 6:10

21

Why is Korean considered a language isolate?

Dec 5 '16 at 21:45

19

Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?

May 2 at 22:13

17

What is the correct term for a "lazy L"?

Jul 11 '20 at 23:43

15

What is "case"?

May 16 '18 at 21:20

14

What's the difference between /ɪ/ and /i(ː)/?

Mar 15 '19 at 13:39

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Are there any languages which inflect the noun for morphosyntactic categories normally reserved for verbs (e.g. tense, aspect, etc.)?

Oct 29 '18 at 23:43

14

r in Romance names of London

Jul 10 '15 at 21:04

14

Are syllable initial consonant clusters pronounced in Ancient Greek?

Mar 8 '17 at 14:55

14

Is there evidence that "proto-" languages actually existed?

Jan 12 '17 at 16:50

13

Is there an effort to prove phonemes?

May 3 at 21:28

13

Is future tense in English really a myth?

Sep 6 '19 at 9:47

13

Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?

Jul 5 '19 at 22:49

13

habitual aspect in english

Sep 23 '18 at 1:32

13

Is there a voiced-unvoiced pair for R or L in any language?

Jun 26 '17 at 12:01

13

How do illiterate French people learn which pronunciation to use in different sentences?

Apr 25 '16 at 5:36

12

Is it a coincidence that words ending in -ooch in English tend to be colloquial? If not, why?

Jun 11 '20 at 17:37

12

Is there a name for the phenomenon of some words being more deeply embedded in a language than others?

Mar 27 '18 at 4:16

12

My friend suddenly speaks an unknown language after sleep. Need help with recognition

Oct 3 '16 at 5:11

11

Do any languages contrast [r] and [r:]?

Jul 16 at 7:22

11

Is it possible to have a word-based language completely without word inflection?

Feb 9 '19 at 2:49

11

Latin's excrescent e- in English and French

Apr 11 '15 at 4:26

11

How are English spellings determined for words from eastern languages

Sep 1 '15 at 6:32

11

Are there languages featuring "reversed affricates" as phonological segments?

Apr 17 '18 at 15:34

11

Why does Hebrew transcribe Akkadian š inconsistently?

Mar 4 '18 at 3:39

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