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• 67 Why do most words for "mother", across languages, start with an [m], and for "father" with [p]/[b], but not vice versa?
• 21 What's the term for correspondence between the written and the spoken form of a language?
• 18 Which modern, spoken languages do not use the decimal number system?
• 16 Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?
• 14 What meaningful distinction is there between morphology and syntax?
• 14 What is necessary to decide if Lusitanian is a Celtic language?
• 14 Is there a word or phrase for someone who strongly disapproves of smoking, drinking and gambling?
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