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How similar are Ukrainian and Russian?
Awarded Oct 14 at 8:40
Does Biblical Hebrew have a plural of majesty?
Awarded Sep 18 at 14:16
Why do people with a British accent make an "r" sound at the end of words ending in an "ah" sound
Awarded Aug 31 at 1:07
Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
Awarded Aug 12 at 5:52
What is the difference between "Topic" and "Focus"
Awarded May 23 at 13:48
How are languages affected by substrates vs superstrates?
Awarded May 16 at 14:41
Examples of isomorphism in linguistics?
Awarded Apr 18 at 0:21
Why does Polish use "w" instead of "v"?
Awarded Mar 24 at 14:50
The reason why Semitic languages are written right to left
Awarded Feb 22 at 23:50
Is there any evidence that the modern word for "bear" is an euphemism which replaced the original taboo word?
Awarded Feb 13 at 23:33
Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row? [closed]
Awarded Jan 21 at 12:50
What makes a non-native English speaker sound foreign?
Awarded Jan 17 at 6:26
Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
Awarded Jan 15 at 10:46
Impossible bigrams in the English Language
Awarded Oct 11, 2024 at 19:25
Why do stem-changing verbs have a vowel change in Spanish?
Awarded Oct 1, 2024 at 18:40
Why is English so much more simplified than other, similar languages?
Awarded Sep 25, 2024 at 14:13
Sentence/Utterance/Proposition
Awarded Sep 22, 2024 at 1:17
How is the Filipino expression “salamat” related to the Arabic?
Awarded Jul 25, 2024 at 9:21
Why is October the tenth month even though Octo means eight?
Awarded Jul 15, 2024 at 18:24
Where can I find old dictionaries?
Awarded Jul 4, 2024 at 5:22
What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
Awarded Jun 30, 2024 at 16:11
What is "accommodation" in phonetics?
Awarded Jun 11, 2024 at 5:18
What is the oldest known English word that means "penis"? [closed]
Awarded Jun 1, 2024 at 14:57
What is the longest word without a vowel in any language? [closed]
Awarded May 29, 2024 at 17:03
Is there an easy way to type IPA?
Awarded May 1, 2024 at 12:07
How to determine which phoneme a group of allophones realizes?
Awarded Apr 25, 2024 at 7:16
Is a language possible without verbs or without nouns?
Awarded Apr 18, 2024 at 6:30
Norwegian Translation Codes (no, nn, nb) - Which to use on a website?
Awarded Mar 11, 2024 at 9:19
How to Handle Conjunctions in Generative Syntax Tree without Abandoning Nontangling Condition
Awarded Feb 25, 2024 at 0:10
Languages with no past tense?
Awarded Feb 24, 2024 at 6:33
Why are raccoons called "washbears" in many languages?
Awarded Feb 14, 2024 at 23:04
List of 1000 most common words across all languages [closed]
Awarded Feb 11, 2024 at 20:42
Are there any languages without /a/ or /i/?
Awarded Feb 10, 2024 at 16:27
What is the difference between coreference resolution and anaphora resolution?
Awarded Jan 24, 2024 at 14:10
Do two deaf persons from different countries understand each other? [duplicate]
Awarded Jan 10, 2024 at 22:43
Are Semitic and Indo-European languages at all related?
Awarded Oct 6, 2023 at 1:31
How different are Chinese dialects?
Awarded Sep 22, 2023 at 8:36
Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why?
Awarded Aug 14, 2023 at 1:50
Syntax - difference between modifiers and complements in NPs?
Awarded Jul 21, 2023 at 8:37
Is there a French IPA translator for free?
Awarded Jul 12, 2023 at 8:56
the difference between upward and downward entailment
Awarded Jul 4, 2023 at 14:47
Is English the only language (except classical Latin, Cyrillic, symbol languages and auxiliary languages) that has no diacritic symbols/accents?
Awarded May 11, 2023 at 22:21
Is the sound "w" a velar or a bilabial consonant?
Awarded May 5, 2023 at 1:32
Why does Vietnamese language seem to be so similar to Mandarin Chinese
Awarded Apr 9, 2023 at 0:48
Why is Korean considered a language isolate?
Awarded Mar 27, 2023 at 3:41
Why there are no grammatical cases in the French language?
Awarded Mar 8, 2023 at 11:22
Why do most languages have multiple genders? Also, how do languages determine what gender to give things?
Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 16:57
What's the difference between /ɪ/ and /i(ː)/?
Awarded Jan 31, 2023 at 14:17
Status of "Mmm" or "Hmm"
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 16:09
Linguistics relativity and linguistic determinism
Awarded Dec 20, 2022 at 19:51
Is it possible to become fluent in any language simply by reading books in that language?
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 8:02
Definitions of extra-linguistic, internal and external change?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 18:01
Why are "eat" and "drink" different words in languages?
Awarded Oct 20, 2022 at 20:34
What are the characteristics of a glide in English?
Awarded Oct 13, 2022 at 8:42
Are 'reference', 'sense', 'connotation', 'denotation', 'intension', and 'extension' mutually distinct terms?
Awarded Sep 15, 2022 at 1:33
Paradigmatic vs syntagmatic relationship
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 5:42
Linguistic relationship between Hebrew and Greek
Awarded Jul 8, 2022 at 23:48
What is my first language?
Awarded Jun 1, 2022 at 13:48
Corpus of Chat/IM/Text Conversations?
Awarded May 12, 2022 at 15:06
Sounds that humans make with their mouths
Awarded May 10, 2022 at 13:01
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