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This creature is a highly social, intelligent herbivore with 360-degree vision, capable of sleeping both standing up and lying down.
What is a horse?
An affix inserted inside a root.
What is an infix?
Old English nouns were marked for this grammatical feature, which Modern English has largely lost.
What is case?
A term for a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.
What is a creole?
In English, the aspirated [pʰ] in “pin” and the unaspirated [p] in “spin” are examples of these.
What are allophones?
One of the "impossible" colors: a, deep, dark, and highly saturated blue that appears blacker than black, which the human eye cannot perceive under normal lighting conditions.
What is Stygian Blue?
A unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word.
What is a lexeme?
Old English had grammatical gender, but Modern English largely retains gender only in this category of words.
What are pronouns?
Despite being spoken in Central Europe, this language is not Indo-European and belongs to the Uralic family.
What is Hungarian?
This phonological process causes sounds to become more similar to neighboring sounds, such as “input” pronounced as “imput.”
What is assimilation?
This is a popular Colombian snack food made with cassava starch, cheese, and egg.
What is pandebono?
The word “brunch” is formed through this word-formation process.
What is blending?
English pronouns “they,” “them,” and “their” were borrowed from this language.
What is Old Norse?
This Amazonian language has been claimed to lack recursion, sparking major theoretical debate.
What is Pirahã?
These sounds are fricative and affricate consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.
What are sibilants?
This popular meme phrase originated from a 1941 Looney Tunes cartoon popularized in 2018.
What is Big Chungus?
The process of creating a new word by removing a perceived affix, such as “edit” from “editor,” is called this.
What is back-formation?
Before the Great Vowel Shift, the vowel in “time” was pronounced approximately like this modern vowel.
What is [iː] (like in “machine”)?
This term refers to the mixture between the Ukrainian and Russian languages, spoken in regions of Ukraine, Russia, and Moldova.
What is Surzhyk? Spelled суржик in cyrillic.
pronounce this for an extra 67 points:
e.pæ.jær.jes.tel.mæl.lis.tyt.tæ.mæt.tø.myy.del.læn.sæ.kø.hæn
epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään
even with their inability to be disorganized
This 3D sandbox, open-world game where players explore, gather resources, and build structures was released in 2009.
What is Minecraft????!!!!!
This grammatical case denotes accompaniment.
What is the comitative case?
This sound law describes the systematic shift of Proto-Indo-European voiceless stops into Proto-Germanic fricatives, explaining correspondences like Latin pater and English father.
What is Grimm’s Law?
American Sign Language is part of this language family.
What is the Francosign or French Sign Language family?
When a phonological rule applies only if another rule has applied first, their interaction is described as this.
What is counterfeeding (or rule ordering interaction)?
(accept: feeding/bleeding interaction depending on wording)