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Why was "zh" picked to represent /ʒ/, and where does it come from?

Is the schwa sound consistent?

Is there some relationship between the modern u and μ?

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

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

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

Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did

Why is Korean considered a language isolate?

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

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

How can unrelated language families exist after the evolution of language?

What is "case"?

Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?

Is future tense in English really a myth?

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

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

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

What are the differences between palatal consonant and palatalized consonant?

r in Romance names of London

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

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

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

Can /∅/ be used transliterate silent characters? (I.P.A.)

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

When should I use /ə/ or /ɪ/ and why does it seem like they're not used correctly?

habitual aspect in english

Is there an effort to prove phonemes?

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

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

Are syllable initial consonant clusters pronounced in Ancient Greek?