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Light verb constructionsA light verb is a verb deprived of its basic meaning. Many languages employ

Pronounciation of the digraph <OU> [ow] - Spanish (very rarely), Northern Europea

Prefixing and suffixing languagesMostly prefixing - Most Berber languages, Bantu languages, Guarani,

(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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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.

Orthographic depthLanguages have different levels of othographic depth, that means that a language&r

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

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