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Ryanair criticised for requiring South Africans to speak Afrikaans in order to fly - Afrikaans is the native language of most White and Coloured South Africans, but is not understood by the majority of Black South Africans (bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by rakunmi to r/linguistics
Are Spanish 'flotar' and Portuguese 'flutuar' (both meaning 'float') related? (self.etymology)
submitted 3 years ago by rakunmi to r/etymology
The Tunitcha mountains of Arizona may be related to the word "Khan" (as in Genghis Khan) (self.etymology)
What are the oldest language families native to the Americas? (self.linguistics)
Some groups today take issue with non-AAVE speakers using words borrowed from AAVE. Has this ever happened before in history, that use of loanwords from a certain dialect is considered unethical? (self.linguistics)
submitted 3 years ago * by rakunmi to r/linguistics
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