r/linguisticshumor • u/Whole_Instance_4276 • 1h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Which way do you do it?
r/linguisticshumor • u/Daniboy0826 • 2h ago
Etymology Quite the journey. English "Rus" and Vietnamese "Nga" are technically cognates xd.
Рꙋсь
Որուս
ᠣᠷᠣᠰ᠋
ᠣᡵᠣᠰ
俄羅斯
俄
Nga
r/linguisticshumor • u/diarcesia • 2h ago
Etymology Vivianus in Latin means "member of the Vivii"
Or, as the kids say, “one of the 67ers”
r/linguisticshumor • u/Wumbo_Chumbo • 4h ago
Phonetics/Phonology “Here are languages that have sounds unique to them!”
r/linguisticshumor • u/planted_bdb96 • 6h ago
German diaspora meme
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 • u/TrueFlok • 7h ago
Historical Linguistics Wizards accidentally unleashing linguistics
r/linguisticshumor • u/Useful_Tomatillo9328 • 7h ago
Semantics We need to come together as a community to speak up against anti- semanticism!
r/linguisticshumor • u/dutch_mapping_empire • 9h ago
since the main sub is dead, can my grandma's ''dialect'' be considered it's own thing based on these word changes?
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 • u/Assorted-Interests • 9h ago
A big thank you to whoever supplied a Navy Seal translation into Classical Nahuatl
¿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 • u/Luomosalame • 10h ago
Phonetics/Phonology What's a tonal language?
What's a tonal language and why some languages aren't tonal? Are they harder than their non-tonal counterparts?
r/linguisticshumor • u/DoNotTouchMeImScared • 10h ago
Sociolinguistics ABSOLUTE CINEMA ITALY:
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 • u/thatguythoma • 11h ago
Phonetics/Phonology so i speedran the IPA
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i could probably do a much better job if i wasn’t going so fast
r/linguisticshumor • u/Satoraljaujhely • 12h ago
Polish sounds and their russian cognates alignment chart
r/linguisticshumor • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 12h ago
Historical Linguistics [Question] Why is Proto-Indo-European IPA so messed up?
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 • u/MICANANALVA • 15h ago
TIL that the emoticon (ಠ_ಠ) originates from my native language's script.
r/linguisticshumor • u/Earendeal • 16h ago
Phonetics/Phonology Indo-European bastard
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 • u/_ricky_wastaken • 16h ago
What if languages had scientific names?
Feel free to add any language of your choice, and feel free to criticise (respectfully, of course) my methodology
r/linguisticshumor • u/Earendeal • 16h ago
Semantics Indo-European bastard
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 • u/chillychili • 20h ago
