Phonology
The IPA symbol for the voiced bilabial stop.
What is b?
What is a compound word?
What is the past tense?
Another name for a lexicon.
What is a dictionary?
The language from which the word 'hola' comes from.
What is Spanish?
This English letter represents 9 distinct sounds (depending on dialect).
What is A?
Multiple words that all act as if they were a single noun within a sentence.
What is a noun phrase?
The aspect of the verb 'follow' in the sentence "He is following her."
What is the progressive aspect?
The most irregular word cross-linguistically.
What is 'to be', 'is', or 'are'?
The type of writing system used in Japanese.
What is a syllabary?
The process by which tones are introduced in a language.
What is Tonogenesis?
The process by which a noun changes form to encode grammatical information.
What is declension?
The name for the phenomenon where verbs change form depending on the subject and object.
What is polypersonal agreement?
The term for an amateur conlang where all the words in it have a 1 to 1 correspondence to their native language.
What is a relex?
This group of polysynthetic languages is often mistakenly thought to have 50 words for snow.
What is the Inuit language family?
What is /R/?
The least common morphosyntactic alignment and the opposite of nominative/accusative.
What is ergative/absolutive?
What is the inferential mood?
The phenomenon where words' meanings change over time.
What is semantic drift?
A language with a lexicon of only 123 words.
What is Toki Pona?
The velar ejective stop.
What is /k'/?
The noun case that marks the possessor of an object.
What is the Genitive Case?
The number of objects that a verb can take.
What is valency?
Prefixes, suffixes, or other morphology that change the meaning of a root word in a predictable way. I.e. re- or -tion.
What is derivational morphology?
This language, infamous for its complexity, was used to encrypt messages in World War II.
What is Navajo?