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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
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Is there some relationship between the modern u and μ?
May 18 '17 at 19:35
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Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did
Dec 8 '16 at 0:27
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Does IPA notation ever get capitalized to match their written counterparts?
Oct 26 '17 at 6:10
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In romance languages, are there examples of male names that derive from female names?
Aug 1 '18 at 4:15
20
Why is Korean considered a language isolate?
Dec 5 '16 at 21:45
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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
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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
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r in Romance names of London
Jul 10 '15 at 21:04
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Is there evidence that “proto-” languages actually existed?
Jan 12 '17 at 16:50
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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
Jul 5 '19 at 22:49
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habitual aspect in english
Sep 23 '18 at 1:32
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Is there a voiced-unvoiced pair for R or L in any language?
Jun 26 '17 at 12:01
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How do illiterate French people learn which pronunciation to use in different sentences?
Apr 25 '16 at 5:36
13
Are syllable initial consonant clusters pronounced in Ancient Greek?
Mar 8 '17 at 14:55
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 future tense in English really a myth?
Sep 6 '19 at 9:47
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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
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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
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Why does Hebrew transcribe Akkadian š inconsistently?
Mar 4 '18 at 3:39
11
Can /∅/ be used transliterate silent characters? (I.P.A.)
Nov 14 '17 at 18:58
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Are there languages that inflect adverbs for gender
Aug 23 '19 at 20:20
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Does “Je n’ai jamais vu personne” truly have triple negatives? Isn't 'ne' the only negative?
Jul 27 '18 at 7:32
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