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Kango instead of Gairaigo

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Earliest instance of θ-fronting

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Hong Kong, China

Neoncities is a sub for photography of neon-lit cities at night. Some would call it cyberpunk, others would argue about it. We're just here to appreciate this style of photography and artwork. If your content isn't OC, credit the artist.

Carlotta e paparazza

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For Who have same initials…

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Science terms ≈ Musical Terms

Linguistics Humor: a sub for humor relating to linguistics

If English changes all ph into f, then it should also turn -us into -o.

Linguistics Humor: a sub for humor relating to linguistics

Girishakana, katakanaized (ギリシャカナ, カタカナ化)

Reddit's home of scripts invented for secret notes, fictional languages, semantic experiments, and more. Post creative uses of existing constructed scripts or showcase your own!

Are there rules regarding to cursive Hanzi?

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Given name that can be on the r/linguisticshumor

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Who is shorter?

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Try reconstruct Proto-Euro-Dravidian

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*sheep sound*

Linguistics Humor: a sub for humor relating to linguistics

Cantonese code-mixing in Hanzi

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A place to play with orthography: how sounds are assigned to characters of the world's writing systems. Spelling reforms, adapting scripts to languages, and so on are welcome!

House of Hearth approved

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MBTI have no back vowels.

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Does anyone know toki pona?

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Reposted here

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Do you know some fictional characters whose name exactly like toki pona words?

kama pona tawa kulupu pi toki pona lon lipu Wesi! (Welcome to the Toki Pona subreddit!)

散蛍

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Why Zani is zany?

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te to li su

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kama pona tawa kulupu pi toki pona lon lipu Wesi! (Welcome to the Toki Pona subreddit!)

Did anyone tried to invent “double I” for [j] sound?

Linguistics Humor: a sub for humor relating to linguistics

You Know that most fairy tales come from Germanic language speakers, right?

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Decipher this

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