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269 words Families like Altaic and Khoisan have fallen out of favor among the academic community, but are there any proposed macro families that are actually gaining steam? 118 words Why do so few writing systems descend from Sumerian Cuneiform? 324 words Comprehensive list of phonological rule notations 140 words This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - July 15, 2019 219 words Does Hepburn really help in making non-speakers sound more understandable opposed to Kunrei? 246 words Which is easier to learn for a native English speaker, German or French? 119 words As a native speaker of Finnish I used to think that the difference between 'cease' and 'seize' in English was only vowel length, and was surprised to find out that the final consonants also differ. Which feature is more salient to native speakers: vowel length or consonant voicing? 162 words Using the Greek αλφαβετ for words of Greek ετυμολογy. 157 words ELI5 - Why do some languages have male and female words? Eg German. 233 words Length of language use questions 147 words Noam Chomsky's theory of linguistic nativism 140 words Is the diversity of American accents exaggerated? 145 words Why is ‘The children won’t buy flowers at the market on Saturday, but I will plants at the store on Sunday.’ Ungrammatical? 127 words Are there any documented examples of a language gaining a gender/a gender system? 298 words What PIE > Proto-Celtic sounds am I missing? 687 words "I'm going home." "I'm going to school." "I'm going to the hospital." How did the rules for preposition & article use develop this way in American English? 188 words A linguistic prejudice called native-speakerism 291 words Do speakers of AAVE generally write in AAVE? (When writing for themself or other AAVE speakers) 188 words This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - November 07, 2016 164 words When a language changes script such as arabic to latin in Turkey and chinese to latin in Vietnam, what else changes? Does it impact on spoken language at all?