r/asklinguistics is a subreddit with 209k members. The community frequently discusses language, languages, pronunciation, english, and grammar, and they frequently recommend/review fonts, and the most common flair used is general, historical, phonology, phonetics, and orthography.
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Popular Topics in r/asklinguistics
#1
Language
44 posts
#2
Languages
34 posts
#3
Pronunciation
19 posts
#4
English
17 posts
#5
Grammar
15 posts
#6
Phonology
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#7
Accent
8 posts
#8
Phonetics
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#9
Evolution
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#10
Etymology
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Products Discussed in r/asklinguistics
Fonts
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SIL
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Linux Libertine
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Brill
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Flair Used in r/asklinguistics
#1
General
: "Crab vs Crabs, is crabs a "bad word"?"
33 posts
#2
Historical
: "Why do English speakers say axolotl and not ajolote?"
16 posts
#3
Phonology
: "Could I tell a British person my name is "Diegor"? Would they pronounce my name closer to the original Spanish?"
13 posts
#4
Phonetics
: "What determines the sound an English learner will replace the /th/ sound with?"
7 posts
#5
Orthography
: "In languages that use diacritical marks to distinguish letters, do native speakers regard them as related or as entirely different letters?"
3 posts
#6
Semantics
: "Settle a debate about non gendered terms between me and my gf."
2 posts
#7
Literature
: "Is it true that modern speakers of Icelandic can read the Icelandic sagas with the same ease as English speakers with Shakespeare?"
2 posts
#8
History of Ling.
: "how did manchu become so endangered"
2 posts
#9
Socioling.
: "Are there languages where voiced consonants are held as notes in music?"
2 posts
#10
Dialectology
: "How would a nahuatl accent sound in English/Spanish?"
2 posts
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Last updated: June 28, 2026