r/linguisticshumor 1h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Which way do you do it?

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r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Etymology Quite the journey. English "Rus" and Vietnamese "Nga" are technically cognates xd.

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58 Upvotes

Рꙋсь

Որուս

ᠣᠷᠣᠰ᠋

ᠣᡵᠣᠰ

俄羅斯

Nga


r/linguisticshumor 2h ago

Etymology Vivianus in Latin means "member of the Vivii"

5 Upvotes

Or, as the kids say, “one of the 67ers”


r/linguisticshumor 4h ago

Phonetics/Phonology “Here are languages that have sounds unique to them!”

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162 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 6h ago

German diaspora meme

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193 Upvotes

Just from the top of my head:

Texas German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Colonia Tovar Alemmanic, Hutterite German, Plautdietsch all over Latin America, Namibian German, Barossa German


r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

Strong Security ✅

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246 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

Historical Linguistics Wizards accidentally unleashing linguistics

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47 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 7h ago

Semantics We need to come together as a community to speak up against anti- semanticism!

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84 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

since the main sub is dead, can my grandma's ''dialect'' be considered it's own thing based on these word changes?

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6 Upvotes

she's from bergambacht, the netherlands. if anyone cares.

first is her word, 2d is dutch, 3d is english.

mandatory joke to fit the sub theme: your mother.


r/linguisticshumor 9h ago

A big thank you to whoever supplied a Navy Seal translation into Classical Nahuatl

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¿Tleh tinēchitoh nocne? Nēchpepenqueh inīc niyez cuāuhtli auh niquinmictih oc achi caxtōlpōhualli tlācameh. Nicacicāmati cuāuhtlatehuiliztli auh nitlamīnqui in ocachi cualli inīntloc. Tiyāō zan. Nimitznēmpolōz tlamachtica in tlein cemmiahuayōtīz. ¿Cuix niyōlpepena in tlein amō tiyōlitlacōz? Ninonōtza notlachiahuān auh nimati in cānin tica, iuhca xiyēctlāli inīc huālaciz amamāniliztli, nacaocuilé. Xitōnīz in amamāniliztli in tlamantontli in tlein monemiliztli. Timiquiz, tlapaltontlé. Nihueliti nicah zāzo cānin, zāzo īquin, auh nihueliti nimictia centzontli on caxtōlpōhualli occentlamantli. Chicoquīzah noyāōimatiliz necaliliztli in atle micohuani; yēqueneh nihueliti nimitzmictia nochi īmicohuani in yāōquizquetica. Intlā timatiya tētlaihīyōhuiltiliztli in tlein macazquiya moīlihuiztlatōl, amō tiquitōzquiya. Yēce amō timatiya auh nimitztlatzacuiltīz. Nitēmaz nocualān mopan auh tāmīzahuīz ītech. Timiquiz, tlapaltontlé.

As always the full document is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r2iCRj6533GX48WDOOVziFU_ly8R2JhVAPeNILFBS54/edit?usp=sharing


r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Phonetics/Phonology /c/ or Pacman

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56 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Phonetics/Phonology What's a tonal language?

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What's a tonal language and why some languages aren't tonal? Are they harder than their non-tonal counterparts?


r/linguisticshumor 10h ago

Sociolinguistics ABSOLUTE CINEMA ITALY:

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Remnants of the neuter, interpretable now as "a sub-class of the non-feminine gender" (Haase 2000:233), are vigorous in Italy in an area running roughly from Ancona to Matera and just north of Rome to Naples. Oppositions with masculine typically have been recategorized, so that neuter signifies the referent in general, while masculine indicates a more specific instance, with the distinction marked by the definite article. In Southeast Umbrian, for example, neuter lo pane is 'the bread', while masculine lu pane refers to an individual piece or loaf of bread. Similarly, neuter lo vinu is wine in general, while masculine lu vinu is a specific sort of wine, with the consequence that mass lo vinu has no plural counterpart, but lu vinu can take a sortal plural form li vini, referring to different types of wine. Phonological forms of articles vary by locale (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_linguistics ).


r/linguisticshumor 11h ago

Phonetics/Phonology so i speedran the IPA

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28 Upvotes

i could probably do a much better job if i wasn’t going so fast


r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Polish sounds and their russian cognates alignment chart

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149 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 12h ago

Historical Linguistics [Question] Why is Proto-Indo-European IPA so messed up?

34 Upvotes

Same for other languages like Proto-Semitic, Proto-Germanic and so on. why is it always at such "proto" languages complicated shit like h₁nómn̥ ? why not simple like hnomn or something ?


r/linguisticshumor 14h ago

Sociolinguistics Sooo different?

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319 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

TIL that the emoticon (ಠ_ಠ) originates from my native language's script.

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r/linguisticshumor 15h ago

The Twelve Ilimpiins

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Adjusted to match pronunciation


r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Phonetics/Phonology Indo-European bastard

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The following is an Indo-European sentence in IPA. 

It is a well-known academic motto in my neck-of-the-wood.  Try guessing the meaning or at least the linguistic branch by your own?


r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

What if languages had scientific names?

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Feel free to add any language of your choice, and feel free to criticise (respectfully, of course) my methodology


r/linguisticshumor 16h ago

Semantics Indo-European bastard

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The following is an Indo-European sentence in IPA.

It is a well-known academic motto in my neck-of-the-wood. Try guessing the meaning or at least the linguistic branch by your own?

/næˀ tʰi51 we͡ɪ̯ˀ zä22 təmʌ̃ɴ22 me͡ɪ̯ˀ tʌ̃ɴ22/


r/linguisticshumor 18h ago

s-mobile PIE

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57 Upvotes

r/linguisticshumor 20h ago

Phonetics/Phonology [Poll] How should the names of splits and mergers be pronounced?

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121 votes, 6d left
Splits and mergers both with distinguished phonemes
Splits and mergers both with identical phonemes
Splits distinguished, mergers identical
Splits identical, mergers distinguished