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Are there languages with more vowels than consonants?

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Are there natural languages with the following properties (seen in Esperanto)?

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How Standard Average European is Modern Hebrew?

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What kind of features support the claim that Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages?

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Merger of perfect and aorist in Italic and Celtic

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

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Has a Dravido-Australic superfamily been proposed?

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Are there literate speech communities for Sign Languages?

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Speech rate measured in bit/sec

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How many different vowels are there?

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Are there languages that inflect adverbs for gender

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Replacements for swear words

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What are "Auxilliary nouns" in Kyrgyz?

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What is the contribution of Tocharian to the reconstruction of Proto-Indogermanic?

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What is the current understanding of the substrate(s) to the Indo-Aryan languages

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When did the /θ/ sound die out in the continental Germanic languages?

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Is there a negative correlation between the number of speakers of a language and its morphological richness?

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word2vec: Why does the famous equation |king⟩+|woman⟩-|man⟩≃|queen⟩ hold?

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What is (or was) the exative case?

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What's a cogniteme?

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What has happened to the World Phonotactics Database?

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Are there languages without non-finite verb forms at all?

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When and by whom was the term absolutive (case) created?

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What happened to this isolate language of China?

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Speed listening

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Status of Nordwestblock / Ancient Belgian hypothesis

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How many different vowels can be reliable annotated?

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The impact on the deciphering of the Carian language on proto-Anatolian

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Are there languages with the three-fold articulation place contrast dental–alveolar–retroflex?

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The Indogermanic r-mediopassive and the Latin ending -mini from a broader perspective

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Are there languages with more vowels than consonants?

Are there natural languages with the following properties (seen in Esperanto)?

How Standard Average European is Modern Hebrew?

What kind of features support the claim that Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages?

Merger of perfect and aorist in Italic and Celtic

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

Has a Dravido-Australic superfamily been proposed?

Are there literate speech communities for Sign Languages?

Speech rate measured in bit/sec

How many different vowels are there?

Are there languages that inflect adverbs for gender

Replacements for swear words

What are "Auxilliary nouns" in Kyrgyz?

What is the contribution of Tocharian to the reconstruction of Proto-Indogermanic?

What is the current understanding of the substrate(s) to the Indo-Aryan languages

When did the /θ/ sound die out in the continental Germanic languages?

Is there a negative correlation between the number of speakers of a language and its morphological richness?

word2vec: Why does the famous equation |king⟩+|woman⟩-|man⟩≃|queen⟩ hold?

What is (or was) the exative case?

What's a cogniteme?

What has happened to the World Phonotactics Database?

Are there languages without non-finite verb forms at all?

When and by whom was the term absolutive (case) created?

What happened to this isolate language of China?

Speed listening

Status of Nordwestblock / Ancient Belgian hypothesis

How many different vowels can be reliable annotated?

The impact on the deciphering of the Carian language on proto-Anatolian

Are there languages with the three-fold articulation place contrast dental–alveolar–retroflex?

The Indogermanic r-mediopassive and the Latin ending -mini from a broader perspective