Phonetics
The full IPA classification for this phoneme:
[t]
What is the voiceless alveolar stop/plosive?
A person who can speak multiple different languages fluently.
What is a polyglot?
A subgroup of the Indo-European language family that consists of Spanish, Italian, French, Portugese, Romanian and more.
What is romance language or neo-latin languages?
A variant of a morpheme
What is an allomorph?
Considered by some to be the father of modern linguistics.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The place of articulation of these sounds: [ɖ, ɳ, ɽ, ...]
What is retroflex ?
In syntax, a word used to link the subject of a sentence with the predicate
What is copula?
A family of languages including Welsh, Manx, Cornish, Breton, etc.
What is the celtic language family?
The least common type of word order typology.
What is OSV (object-subject-verb)?
The study of the history of words
What is etymology?
The unit of measurement used for vocal fold vibrations.
What is hertz?
A pidgin that has become a full-flegded language.
What is a creole?
The Bantu click language sung in the beginning of The Circle of Life.
What is isiZulu or Zulu?
A language where every word consists of a single morpheme.
What is analytic or isolating language?
In historical linguisitcs, a hypothetical language that is believed to be an ancestor to attested languages
What is a proto-language?
The lowest frequency of a periodic wave form.
What is fundamental frequency?
A language or dialect used to make communication possible between people who do not share a native language or dialec
What is a lingua franca?
The name for invented languages such as Klingon, Na'vi, or Elvish
What are constructed languages or conlangs/artificual languages?
A noun class system that is found in languages such as French, Russian, German, Arabic, etc.
What is grammatical gender?
Language famously studied by Benjamin Lee Whorf, claimed as having no direct word for time.
What is Hopi?
Three types of non-pulmonic consonants
What are clicks (velaric egressive), implosives (glottalic ingressive), and ejectives (glottalic ingressive)?
A writing system in which a written character represents a word or phrase.
What is a logographic writing system?
Letters which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.
What are runes?
The use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying
What is
In the early 20th century, this linguist distinguished between the notions of langue and parole in his formulation of structural linguistics.
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?