Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/October 2015

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 1


 * 1) The meaning of "outsouthern"
 * 2) Acquiescent v quiescent
 * 3) why does the portugese word viciado means "addicted" ? what is his etymology?

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 2


 * 1) Gender of rivers
 * 2) Freckles in Swahili

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 3


 * 1) German physics text
 * 2) Fatherland/motherland and the grammatical gender of the name of the country
 * 3) Pronoun type
 * 4) Ansakit
 * 5) Hung or hanged?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 4


 * 1) Which languages, formally recognized by countries belonging to the Council of Europe, have the simplest Grammar?
 * 2) I'm looking for languages whose phonological system has (at least) nine monophthongs (as phonemes), as following:

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 6


 * 1) Arabic from 1772

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 7


 * 1) How kids these days write

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 9


 * 1) Racking my mac Brain
 * 2) Doctors Without Borders

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 10


 * 1) Italian hard ‘c’ in English

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 11


 * 1) Gränitz

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 12


 * 1) Word for personification of abstract concept?
 * 2) Pre-Latin Basque writing

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 13


 * 1) Vienna University of Economics and Business
 * 2) "S" vs. "ss"

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 14


 * 1) What exactly does the annotation "plural but singular or plural in construction" mean in a dictionary definition?

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 15


 * 1) Spanish - "se las"
 * 2) Describing the "c" sound in IPA

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 16


 * 1) Ambiguous phrase in a poem, "Coast of High Barbaree"
 * 2) Anatolia

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 17


 * 1) Translating foreign language pages
 * 2) Why does the quiet the whole Euro-Asian continent uses the Guarani (native americans) word JAGUAR for this animal,

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 18


 * 1) List of Germanic roots in English

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 21


 * 1) Definitions of rheme and rhematic
 * 2) Arabic translation

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 22


 * 1) what's the deal with double periods/exclamation points
 * 2) Native speaker (Ukrainian): Please Help!

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 23


 * 1) Feminine pronouns
 * 2) Most precise language?
 * 3) Pidgin Languages

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 24


 * 1) Slovak Language help - AfD could use some input and research ASAP - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucas Perny
 * 2) Native speaker (Ukrainian): Please Help! (Part II)
 * 3) Is the following sentence (the italicized one) correct?
 * 4) Pronunciation of saudade

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 25


 * 1) Do modern Italians sounds like ancient ones?
 * 2) Is the term "one party rule" ambiguous?
 * 3) Hanzi question
 * 4) Testing functional literacy
 * 5) Russian в

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 26


 * 1) Who did invent gloss quotes?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 27


 * 1) Titular terminological travesty
 * 2) Semi-vowel followed by equivalent vowel
 * 3) How would you say, in one word ...

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 29


 * 1) What languages use (the equivalent of) the long scale names billiard, trilliard, etc.
 * 2) When 'out of' means 'at'
 * 3) Home office

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2015 October 31


 * 1) Arabic min-hu - from him, his, of his?
 * 2) Does American English have triphthongs?
 * 3) Punctuation after punctuation?!