Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/April 2020

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April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 4

1. Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 5

1. Identifying object in a sentence?

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 6

1. Baby

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 7

1. Czech trade union name

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 9

1. What are some languages where people say "yes" instead of "no"?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 10

1. (Sometimes serial) unstressed your
2. Italian dialect pronunciation
3. "The" before monarchical titles with names
4. Njörvasund

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 11

1. Gypsy Song in Faces

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 12

1. 'Actor' vs. 'actress'
2. Interesting vowel shift

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 13

1. Waiter and waitress
2. K for "thousand"

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 15

1. Administration
2. It is possible to learn some language just by reading texts (that arent texts that explain how the language works)?
3. intus in Vergil

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 16

1. Hungarian reference

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 20

1. Arabic calligraphic tiger
2. Is 人人上! 人人进步. the right translation of "everyone up!" "progress for all." in mandarin and cantonese?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 21

1. Japanese Chinese text
2. What's wrong with "belief"?

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 22

1. Thereafter, thereby, moreover, furthermore...

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 23

1. Prophesying in German
2. Amphibians

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 24

1. Australian marsupial names
2. The naming of the introductory year of a person's life

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 26

1. Transversal

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 27

1. The consonant E
2. Term for Extra Middle Names

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 28

1. Grammar

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 April 29

1. Using a superlative adjective when comparing only two items
2. Rooibus en español