Proto-Polynesian reconstruction and ambiguities in Hawaiian, Maori ...
Jul 31, 2019 · Proto-Polynesian reconstruction and ambiguities in Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan and Tongan Ask Question Asked 6 years, 6 months ago Modified 2 years, 6 months ago
Are there highly analytic (isolating) languages without tone?
Mar 15, 2022 · I know many highly analytic languages (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai) are tonal languages. Are there similarly analytic or isolating languages that don't use tone the way those languages do? …
comparative linguistics - Is there any evidence of language contact ...
May 7, 2018 · The only well regarded link between old and new world languages are the Dené–Yeniseian languages, which don't include either. But that's in terms of language family links, …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural for ...
Aug 3, 2024 · The conclusion must therefore be that different groups of speakers, such as deaf children and participants with different native languages in experiments, independently of each other tend to …
phonology - Can languages restrict their number of distinct syllables ...
Aug 8, 2020 · For example, Maori is written using the Latin alphabet because of the British conquest of New Zealand, not because it is suitable for the language. That alphabet in turn was adopted for …
orthography - Verifying these resources are accurate written ...
Sep 24, 2018 · I'm wondering if one could say if these resources are accurate representations of the selected languages that use the Latin script (that is, this is how each language would be written, at …
words - Why do most languages have a different form for singular vs ...
Feb 24, 2020 · The majority of the languages where I live (eg Chinese languages like Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka etc. Malay-Austronesian languages like Malay, Indonesian, Javanese, Maori etc.) …
Why do so many languages have a phase like "so-so"?
Jul 23, 2014 · Have to agree with the downvote here. The question was not what to call this repetition, but rather if there is something particular about the meaning so-so that makes such a statistically …
Is it possible to determine the number of words in a language?
Sep 6, 2015 · One would also have to strictly determine which specific dialect of the language is to be analised. And then it overlaps with the perennial struggle in delimitation within languages and lects. …
Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic?
Oct 18, 2016 · Is there a language that has a complete one-to-one correspondence between the graphemes (letters) and the phonemes of the language? In other words, is there a language that is …