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Is there a document to summarize characteristics of various languages?

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Language with the highest ratio of diacritics to letters in typical text

list-of-languages writing diacritics

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What is an example of a speech repertoire?

sociolinguistics accent varieties

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Is “matrix clause” synonymous with “main clause”? What exactly is a matrix clause?

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Getting some mess when trying to “draw” a textgrid file in Praat

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What is the exact position of the tongue for [ n ] in these circumstances?

phonology phonetics ipa pronunciation nasals

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Have there ever been (serious) attempts to replace alphabets with phonetic alphabets?

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What are the minimum number of words needed to express any complex thought?

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How to 'correctly' measure the complexity of the grammar of a language?

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Stress placement in several Turkic words

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What are the reasons to count Armenian as an Indo-European language?

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Does the universal use of noun and verb phrases reflect how humans cognitively see the world as objects and relationships?

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Is there a collection of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic transliterations of foreign names/words?

resource-request egyptian rtransliteration

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Clear introductory sources on Egyptian group-writing

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