Pure Linguistics
Study of the sounds of human languages
What is "Phonetics"?
This conlang is spoken by the blue-skinned people of James Cameron's 2009 box-office bomb.
What is "Na'vi"?
Cree
What is "the United States"?
This word represents the very surface you walk on in every building, but may actually be a woman's name in the Netherlands.
What is "Floor"?
Of verbs, the way time and order are communicated, usually using conjugation
What is "Tense"?
This widely spoken conlang was created by Polish polyglot and ophthalmologist L.L. Zamenhof in the late 19th century.
rouge
Central Tibetan
What is "India" or "China" or "Nepal"?
This gesture at the end of every rom-com when the guy gets the girl (or vice versa) is far more feline in Sweden.
What is "Kiss(e)"?
The set of rules for how sentences in a language is structured
What is "Grammar"?
This conlang is used by the rulers of Westeros in a 2010s epic fantasy series.
What is "Dothraki"?
Rot
What is "German"?
Nahuatl
What is "Mexico" or "the United States"?
This 4-letter word for a celebratory offering means "poison" in German. Not my standard choice of birthday present.
What is "Gift"?
Study of linguistic meaning
What is "Semantics"?
This conlang is spoken by the remnants of a formerly great civilisation in a 2001 Disney adventure movie.
rød
What is "Norwegian"?
Basque
What is "Spain" or "France"?
This word for a biased, discriminatory person instead refers to facial hair in Spanish.
What is "Bigot(e)"?
The study of vocabulary and the art of compiling dictionaries
What is "Lexicography"?
This conlang, created to express "more profound levels of human cognition", is deemed to be unlearnable by even its creator.
What is "Ithkuil"?
laal (लाल)
What is "Hindi"?
Ibibio
What is "Nigeria"?
Celebratory streams of coloured paper dropped from the ceiling, which are actually "sugared almonds" in Italian.
What is "confetti"?