Phonetics
Whether or not a sound is produced with vibrating vocal cords
What is voice?
Conjugation is to verbs as this is to nouns
What is declension?
What is English?
The most widely used writing system
What is the Latin alphabet?
The manner of articulation of [v]
A morpheme that can stand alone as a word
What is a free morpheme?
Burmese falls under this language family
What is Sino-Tibetan?
This script is famously used to write many Slavic languages of Eastern Europe as well as the non-Slavic languages of some former Soviet republics in Central Asia
What is Cyrillic?
Fricatives notably have this feature
What is [+continuant]?
What is an analytic language?
Sinhala, the most widely spoken language in Sri Lanka, is a member of this language family
What is Indo-European?
The smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system
What is a grapheme?
A high F1 implies these kinds of vowels
What are low vowels?
These kinds of morphemes affect the meaning of a word when applied
What are derivational morphemes?
Maltese falls under this language family
What is Afro-Asiatic?
Semitic languages tend to use these kinds of scripts, which famously exclude some or all vowels from writing
What is an abjad?
The IPA symbol [ɮ] represents this sound (full name + try to pronounce it)
What is a voiced alveolar lateral fricative?
The number of morphemes in 'antidisestablishmentarianism'
What is six?
This Mayan language is the second most widely spoken in Guatemala
What is K'iche'?
Abugida writing systems tend to represent vowels using these
What are diacritics?