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31 Questions

When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?

Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?

Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?

Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?

Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

Can Modern Hebrew be considered an Indo-European language?

What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?

How did Korean become a language isolate?

Why is it that Latin was more "successful" in the western part of the Empire than in the eastern part?

Is there any point in the current ordering of the letters in the alphabet?

How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?

How did Italian manage to stay (mostly) phonetically spelled despite its long written tradition?

Do linguists measure the relation distance between languages? How?

Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?

What are some recommended online dictionaries for linguistic terms?

How does a linguist determine whether a pattern is grammatical in a language?

French conjugation, spoken vs written

Simultaneous bilingualism vs Sequential bilingualism

Is there an active alphabetic writing system not based on the Phoenician or the Brahmic lineage?

Can parsing be classified to some complexity class (e.g. NP-complete)?

The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

What is the evidence of the typological cycle theory?

Why do languages have different syllable complexity from each other?

Where can I find a reliable academic source of translations of words to the world's languages?

What are some reasons languages get picked as source languages for neologisms

What is the terminology for a source language for new word production?

How could the Sumerian cuneiform impose constraints on some languages?

What are the rationale of people speaking/teaching Esperanto? [closed]

Is there any language that observe root changes in response to the addition of affixes?