Etymology
From our game, the word "potpourri" can find it's origins in this Latinate language.
What is French?
ə
What is schwa? What is the mid central unrounded vowel?
早上好，中国！现在我有冰淇淋，我喜欢冰淇淋
The field of linguistics which studies meaning.
What is semantics?
Like a number of words beginning in "al" in languages like Spanish, the English words "alcohol" and "algebra" come from this Semitic language.
What is Arabic?
r
Зарегистрируйтесь сейчас на
What is Russian/Cyrillic?
This theorized language is the parent language of a large number of widely spoken languages of today, such as English, Greek, Hindi, Russian, and Persian.
What is Proto-Indo-European?
The English word "quarantine" finds its roots in the duration ships had to wait before being unloaded to prevent spread of the plague: quaranta giorni, originally from this language.
What is Italian?
x
Ela gosta de assistir novelas e cultivar um jardim de rosas brancas.
What is Portuguese?
This is the word for the addition of a sound in a word due to a phonological rule.
What is epenthesis?
This word for a tropical storm comes from the name of the Taino god of storms and wind.
What is hurricane?
ʁ
What is the voiced uvular fricative?
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ ᏗᏂᏍᏕᎵᏍᎩ ᎤᎾᏓᎷᎬ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ ᎤᏙᏢᏒ
What is the Cherokee Syllabary?
Noam Chomsky's famous theories on linguistics, specifically on phonology and syntax, can be described as ____ grammar.
What is generative/generativism?
This linguistic word for a simplified language used between people who don't share a common language is said to come from the Chinese pronunciatin of the word "business".
What is a pidgin?
ʘ
What is a bilabial click?
മനുഷ്യരെല്ലാവരും തുല്യാവകാശങ്ങളോടും
What is Malayalam?
These are rules which regulate the kinds of phonemic sequences allowed in a language.
What are phonotactics?