Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2023

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 1

1. What is the the amount of vowel phones needed to fit those rules and what are those phones?
2. Please transcribe this (I think Hebrew) traditional song
3. Ketumati
4. chinese proverb

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 2

1. Regarding English variations

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 3

1. meaning of a sura?

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 4

1. Latin inscription translation

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 5

1. synonymous Japanese sentences
2. Letter combination "quu"

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 6

1. "Polysyllabic" is polysyllabic

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 7

1. Latin-based demonyms?
2. Mutual intelligibility of some Oghuz Turkic languages

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 8

1. Which languages have a commonly used word for "the person who is being spoken to"?

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 9

1. Getting married to the same person twice

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 10

1. Term for person who has lost their child(ren).

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 11

1. NO WOMAN NO CRY

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 12

1. Film quote - I hear "as" where everyone hears "is"

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 13

1. Yotsugana in Japanese orthography

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 14

1. "see of you won't"

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 15

1. "it's the colour of [?] and it tastes like [?], too" ...
2. Why do some male names have ibn (son of) some have bin in the same language?

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 17

1. Part of speech-rōmaji correlation
2. Origin of "Madzhakandila"
3. What is the meaning/origin of the phrase "I like your cut g"?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 20

1. How to pronounce Kauaʻi ʻōʻō
2. Arabic Eschatology
3. "Canadienne"

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 21

1. Surname for Ola Abu Alghaib

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 25

1. Many questions

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 26

1. 天下分け目の戦国MOVIE大合戦,

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 28

1. "JOD" in the context of a Chinese cotton mill that makes metal parts
2. The rest of us alieurophiles
3. Ethnologue paywall
4. Regarding the name of a book in Arabic

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 29

1. 'A' or 'an' before an abbreviation in writing?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2023 January 31

1. Correct form to write a proper noun in English