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(near) Open/low front unrounded vowelThis is the vowel used in English “sad”. 
Languages where 3rd person singular pronouns are the same or derived from demonstrative determiners&
Double object constructionSome languages, instead of a dative construction (He gave the meat to the
Comparative constructionsEx: “My father is older than my mother”. Types: 1. Loca
russianwave: Maps of the world from a 1988 Soviet Union Children’s book called мир и человек).
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mapsontheweb: What European language am I reading? European language flowchart.
Null object languages Languages that allow the object to be omitted if it can be recovered from
Present and past perfect auxiliariesPeriphrastic constructions of tense-aspect with auxiliaries is c
The Latin alphabet digraph <CH>[ʃ, ɕ] in Portuguese, Northwestern Mexican Spanish, Sou
Pronounciation of the Latin alphabet letter <U>It’s pronounced [u] in most ortho
Plural Marking typologyHow languages mark the plural number on nouns. Many Bantu languages use
mapsontheweb:German loanwords in other languages.
mapsontheweb: Spread of the word for ‘mead’ or ‘honey’ across Eurasia.
The word orange in different European languages.More word maps »correiajoao:TIL that &ldqu
Tenseless languagesLanguage that do not possess the grammatical category of “tense”
mapsontheweb:Shark in European languages.
Pronounciation of the Latin alphabet letter <Ç> (it includes the Cyrilic l
Nasal harmonyNasal harmony is a tendency for assimilation of other consonants and vowels to the nasa
IdeophonesIdeophones are a word class (part of speech) that occur independently in some languages, m
mapsontheweb:Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas be
gruene-teufel:mapsontheweb:Languages young Europeans want to learn.Germany tried to help all those E
mapsontheweb:Countries name in Vietnamese by language of origin. Keep reading
mapsontheweb:Words “moon” and “month” in different languagesIn Greek, Earth’s moon is also named Σελ
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