orthography - How do dictionaries determine correct spelling ...
Oct 13, 2025 · English language has no such institution, so decisions belong to writers of dictionaries, although they are unlikely to introduce any reforms. However, in English, for …
About Bamileke language Kwa - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Sep 10, 2017 · Years ago, I met this guy from Cameroon. I asked him what language he spoke, and, besides Italian and French (and maybe some English), he said he spoke Kwa, a …
historical linguistics - Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French ...
I find Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French constructions for number words bizarre and inconsistent (whereas in Romanian it seems they are perfectly consistent as well as in Ancient …
Loss of final s in Italian - Linguistics Stack Exchange
May 11, 2023 · 4 Why and how did Italian lose the final s consonant in words, while some Romance languages like Spanish and Portuguese retained it? (e.g. Spanish "pues" and Italian …
What are the most specific features of Tuscan dialect of Italian?
Standard Italian is based on the written form of the Tuscan dialect used by Dante and Petrarch, and does not take into account the changes in the language since the establishment of the …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural …
Aug 3, 2024 · The conclusion must therefore be that different groups of speakers, such as deaf children and participants with different native languages in experiments, independently of each …
mutual intelligibility - Can Italians understand dialects such as ...
0 Can Italians speaking the modern Italian dialect (which is derived from Tuscan) understand old Italian dialects such as Ligurian and Venetian?
Which sign language should I learn first? [closed]
Jan 6, 2015 · As to which local sign language you should start learning, that depends on where you live! In my experience, I have found that the Deaf people around me in France knew some …
historical linguistics - How did Italian manage to stay (mostly ...
Italian is commonly cited as an example of a phonetically spelled language. It is easy to guess how an Italian word is pronounced based on the way it is written, because each written symbol …
historical linguistics - Is there a single origin for the connection ...
Albanian koha These are five (or six) sets of languages with no obvious etymological connection for this word. They do, however, have geographical connections, so with only this data I can't …