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The sound of "pausing or thinking" in French!
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Gustavo Meneses 3h ago

Are some words an ancient way of describing things with our mouth? Such as the direction of an action.

The sound of "wet strike" in Estonian!
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Cadernos de Linguística 8h ago

In Brazilian Portuguese, "não" can negate before, after, or around the verb. Gois & Cardoso built negativas, a Python+spaCy tool that auto-classifies these patterns in speech data with 93% accuracy.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N4.ID861
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‘A fire that’s burning again’: Welsh language resurges thanks to adult learners

The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen by 61% since 2017, as people in Wales rediscover the ‘poetry’ of the language

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/29/welsh-language-resurges-adult-learners-dysgu-cymraeg
#languages #linguistics #welsh #cymraeg

‘A fire that’s burning again’: Welsh language resurges thanks to adult learners

The number of people on Dysgu Cymraeg courses has risen by 61% since 2017, as people in Wales rediscover the ‘poetry’ of the language

The Guardian

Tragbare Katze 🔜 EH23

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apocope, or as i've taken to calling it, apocop

The sound of "stuttering" in Polish!
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Glyn Moody 11h ago

Do as Analytic Causative. - https://languagehat.com/do-as-analytic-causative/ "till death do us part:" #linguistics

Do as Analytic Causative. : languagehat.com

Jennifer ( she / her ) ズルい 🐡13h ago

where do I begin #terriblytopical #linguistics 😑

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The sound of "heart beating" in Chinese!
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