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Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?

answered Dec 9, 2014 at 7:33

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What language came before Proto-Indo-European?

answered Aug 7, 2012 at 6:21

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What is the function of "-ter" in words "laughter" and "daughter"?

answered Nov 22, 2012 at 6:38

10 votes

What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?

answered Jan 6, 2013 at 22:10

9 votes

Why don't minimal pairs like "быть" and "бить" prove that /ɨ/ and /i/ are separate phonemes in Russian?

answered Oct 12, 2015 at 5:42

8 votes

Does English "day" really come from PIE *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”)?

answered Nov 11, 2013 at 6:02

7 votes

How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. f in wulfaz?

answered Oct 9, 2013 at 7:38

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Why might English be considered easy to learn and why might it be considered difficult?

answered Jun 17, 2014 at 18:53

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Is the similarity between the Arabic word Gayyid and the English word Good due to a borrowing?

answered Feb 23, 2013 at 20:21

7 votes

Do multilinguals have one language they predominantly think in?

answered Mar 28, 2017 at 18:18

7 votes

Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?

answered May 26 at 9:26

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Does there exist a pair of words with the same parts of speech, same base form, but different inflections?

answered Sep 7 at 9:51

6 votes

Did Georgian ever have a native word for "dolphin"?

answered Jan 29, 2014 at 22:49

5 votes

Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?

answered Dec 14, 2013 at 9:48

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What is the origin of 't-' and 's-' words for second and third person possesive adjectives?

answered Sep 11, 2013 at 20:30

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In which script(s) is the Kazakh language actually written in Kazakhstan?

answered May 25, 2013 at 1:16

5 votes

The reason for similarity of Turkic "min" and latin "mille", Turkic "dil" and dutch "taal"?

answered Jun 4, 2013 at 11:59

5 votes

Similarity between Salut in French and Salaam in Arabic

answered Feb 16, 2013 at 22:49

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Would a Proto language be easy to learn?

answered Aug 7, 2012 at 6:06

5 votes

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Did Proto-Indo-European put the adjective before or behind the noun?

answered Jan 10, 2021 at 17:14

5 votes

How similar are Ukrainian and Russian?

answered Mar 30, 2022 at 21:02

4 votes

Why is the Croatian word "vjetar" spelt with "je" rather than "e"?

answered Sep 4, 2021 at 22:11

4 votes

Difference between "Leiden school" and "mainstream" Indo-Europeanists?

answered Aug 19, 2015 at 12:00

4 votes

Two and Three; Four and Five; Six and Seven are paired by their first letters T, F, S

answered Jan 31, 2016 at 17:40

4 votes

Can words be formed by deriving from just prefix(es) and suffix(es) with no actual root morpheme between?

answered May 23, 2013 at 17:04

4 votes

Does "and" come from the PIE word for "and"?

answered Jan 10, 2014 at 7:16

4 votes

How many different distinctive sounds can an average human make?

answered Jun 5, 2014 at 9:41

3 votes

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Why do mother/father/brother/sister/daughter all end in '-er'?

answered Jan 10, 2014 at 6:17

3 votes

Using the word "dream" as hope for the future across languages

answered Dec 14, 2013 at 10:53

3 votes

Which language has the biggest vocabulary?

answered Mar 17, 2013 at 19:53

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Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?

What language came before Proto-Indo-European?

What is the function of "-ter" in words "laughter" and "daughter"?

What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?

Why don't minimal pairs like "быть" and "бить" prove that /ɨ/ and /i/ are separate phonemes in Russian?

Does English "day" really come from PIE *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”)?

How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. f in wulfaz?

Why might English be considered easy to learn and why might it be considered difficult?

Is the similarity between the Arabic word Gayyid and the English word Good due to a borrowing?

Do multilinguals have one language they predominantly think in?

Is Russian the most diverged Slavic language?

Does there exist a pair of words with the same parts of speech, same base form, but different inflections?

Did Georgian ever have a native word for "dolphin"?

Connection between right (opposite of left) and right (legal term)?

What is the origin of 't-' and 's-' words for second and third person possesive adjectives?

In which script(s) is the Kazakh language actually written in Kazakhstan?

The reason for similarity of Turkic "min" and latin "mille", Turkic "dil" and dutch "taal"?

Similarity between Salut in French and Salaam in Arabic

Would a Proto language be easy to learn?

Did Proto-Indo-European put the adjective before or behind the noun?

How similar are Ukrainian and Russian?

Why is the Croatian word "vjetar" spelt with "je" rather than "e"?

Difference between "Leiden school" and "mainstream" Indo-Europeanists?

Two and Three; Four and Five; Six and Seven are paired by their first letters T, F, S

Can words be formed by deriving from just prefix(es) and suffix(es) with no actual root morpheme between?

Does "and" come from the PIE word for "and"?

How many different distinctive sounds can an average human make?

Why do mother/father/brother/sister/daughter all end in '-er'?

Using the word "dream" as hope for the future across languages

Which language has the biggest vocabulary?