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What is the longest word without a vowel in any language?

Are the longest German and Turkish words really single words?

Is there a term for translating a word to a language that has a different alphabet (such as Hindi to English)?

Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German?

Are some languages more advanced than others?

Can you have two first languages?

Why doesn’t a language modernization initiative adopt pure phonetic spelling?

Is there any link between the word 'eight' and the word 'night'?

Are there any languages without /a/ or /i/?

Ncuti Gatwa is, according to Wikipedia, pronounced /ˈʃuːti ˈɡætwɑː/ - where is the NC orthography derived from?

Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?

Why aren't conlangs very widely used?

Are Andean and Tibetan languages connected?

Is a language possible without verbs or without nouns?

Can Hangul be read as fast as Chinese?

What makes East-Asian languages sound different than European languages?

Do non-tonal languages evolve into tonal languages?

Native English speakers: worse understanding of other accents?

Why do some languages lack family name markers?

Can you rhyme words in sign language?

Why was India as the homeland of PIE abandoned?

Introducing 1 more language to a trilingual baby at home

List of 1000 most common words across all languages

Why does IPA have stress in /ɡəˈʃtɔlt/ before instead of after the /ʃ/?

In Classical/Biblical Hebrew, why is CHAF not considered a guttural?

Why does schwa have a special place among vowels?

Is "illegal" an example of nasal place assimilation in English?

In Turkish, regarding the locative, how do we know which suffix (-de or -da) should be used?

Does the letter p in a word mean that the word is not Germanic?

Is the "p" in "spin" really a "b"?