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Arabic doesn’t have a letter corresponding to P, hence Pakistan is Bakistan in Arabic, so why is Palestine, Falestin and not Balestin

100 upvotes • Final-Shopping-7957

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Why is father pronounced /fɑðɹ̩/ and not /fæðɹ̩/ in an American accent?

67 upvotes • Salpingia

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If someone grew up speaking Latin, what would their accent sound similar to in English?

66 upvotes • ZoogieBear

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Is "Polynesian" considered a language?

56 upvotes • MarchingMachineX

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Phonology Question: "Beijing"

52 upvotes • genialerarchitekt

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cases of children who weren't exposed to language in their critical period for sound

48 upvotes • WeakInvite3945

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Why do (some) Balto-Slavic languages include the “j” in sequences like “-ija”, whereas other IE languages would just use “-ia”?

32 upvotes • colossalpunch

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Are there languages that treat semivowels without dedicated consonant letters as consonants?

31 upvotes • CharmingSkirt95

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Is there any speech variety that you consider to be a language that generally isn’t considered as such?

31 upvotes • Legitimate_Source_34

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Any other proposed linguistic links between the Old and New World other than Eskaleut and Dene-Yeniseian?

30 upvotes • TeoCopr

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Arabic doesn’t have a letter corresponding to P, hence Pakistan is Bakistan in Arabic, so why is Palestine, Falestin and not Balestin	100	Final-Shopping-7957
Why is father pronounced /fɑðɹ̩/ and not /fæðɹ̩/ in an American accent?	67	Salpingia
If someone grew up speaking Latin, what would their accent sound similar to in English?	66	ZoogieBear
Is "Polynesian" considered a language?	56	MarchingMachineX
Phonology Question: "Beijing"	52	genialerarchitekt
cases of children who weren't exposed to language in their critical period for sound	48	WeakInvite3945
Why do (some) Balto-Slavic languages include the “j” in sequences like “-ija”, whereas other IE languages would just use “-ia”?	32	colossalpunch
Are there languages that treat semivowels without dedicated consonant letters as consonants?	31	CharmingSkirt95
Is there any speech variety that you consider to be a language that generally isn’t considered as such?	31	Legitimate_Source_34
Any other proposed linguistic links between the Old and New World other than Eskaleut and Dene-Yeniseian?	30	TeoCopr