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17
How stable are grammatical genders?
Mar 14 '16 at 15:43
12
Are There Ancient Greek Words Descended From Sumerian?
May 23 '16 at 14:14
12
Do languages ever get new cases?
Aug 28 '16 at 15:52
10
Which is closer to Biblical Hebrew - Modern Hebrew, or Modern Arabic?
Jun 9 '18 at 12:36
9
How good is a round-trip translation as a machine translation quality evaluation technique?
Mar 9 '16 at 11:47
8
To which degree are Western and Eastern Armenian mutually intelligible?
Jun 26 '17 at 12:46
8
Use of the definite article in “the Ukraine”
Jun 21 '17 at 8:19
7
How many languages can a person reasonably know?
Sep 5 '18 at 6:28
7
Is English the most descriptive language?
Mar 12 '18 at 18:17
7
Etymology/Origin of surname Szakal
Aug 8 '17 at 15:12
7
How to detect verb in a sentence where the verb is invisible in the sentence?
Oct 21 '16 at 10:05
7
Why is the Romanian syntax for “Good night!” opposite to all the other Romance languages?
Jul 14 '16 at 6:21
7
Why Germanic languages are not generally as soft as other Indo-European languages?
Mar 29 '16 at 19:44
6
Hurrian and Indogermanic
Dec 23 '18 at 7:12
6
Why some verbs have -tion while others don't, when being nounified
Sep 21 '18 at 20:23
6
What language pairs are underserved, and would most benefit from machine-learned bilingual tools?
May 1 '18 at 8:48
6
Is English the only Indo-European language without gendered nouns?
Oct 14 '17 at 7:22
6
Do Azeri people actually use Ə instead of A in names?
Oct 23 '15 at 12:19
6
What are the main differences between machine learning and classic approaches to natural language processing problems?
Sep 2 '16 at 9:26
5
Why is the Romanian tense system so “simple”, compared to other Romance languages?
Jan 1 at 17:44
5
Accuracy of automatic (machine) translation of two languages in same language family
Jan 15 at 6:36
5
How to remove an accent from a language (and what an accent actually is)
Aug 30 '18 at 11:18
5
Influence of Polish and Czech on the phonology of German dialects
Aug 15 '18 at 11:48
5
Did Romance languages evolve in North Africa?
Nov 6 '17 at 8:32
5
Do speakers of languages that use gendered nouns automatically use the same gendered pronouns when referring to an animal as Mr. or Mrs.?
Oct 23 '17 at 23:40
5
What are languages whose name contains the word for “language”?
Aug 8 '16 at 12:28
5
To what extent are Zero Period loans from Latin into Germanic evidence that the Germanic peoples acquired technologies from the Romans?
Aug 4 '17 at 20:54
5
German (-stell-) and Slavic (-stav-) languages: who was first?
Nov 15 '16 at 8:06
5
Feminization suffix “-in” in German: etymology and relatives
Sep 23 '15 at 19:35
5
What exactly is the “German Language”
Aug 29 '16 at 10:03
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