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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?

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Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?

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

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What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word hamburger didn't refer to ham

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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?

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Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?

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Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?

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Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?

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How did the generic masculine emerge?

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Why isn't "I've" a proper response?

44 votes

Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?

42 votes

How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?

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Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?

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Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3

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Is future tense in English really a myth?

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Are language and thought the same?

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Why isn't there a letter for /b/ sound in Greek alphabet while they have the sound?

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Do any languages use words like particles to represent punctuation?

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Why are J, U, W considered part of the basic Latin Alphabet?

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Why vowels sound different from each other

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Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?

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Why do even completely illiterate persons, who speak their national language poorly, speak their local dialect with perfection?

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Why do most languages have a different form for singular vs plural nouns?

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What linguistic evidence is there in support of/in opposition to the account of the Tower of Babel?

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Why are the orthographies of Ancient/Proto Languages so Impractical?

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Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?

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What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)?

31 votes

Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?

30 votes

How does the nonsense word "frabjous" conform to English phonotactics?

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Why were writing systems invented independently during roughly the same period across multiple civilizations?

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