European Languages & Linguistics

Language analysis

• Number of phonemes (vowels, consonants) in European languages
• Difference of usage between British and American English

English & Romance languages

• French words missing in English
• English words missing in French
• English & Italian words missing in French
• English words with Latin roots that don't exist in French and Italian
• Spanish, Portuguese and French words that changed gender from Latin
• Different noun suffixes in Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese
• French words starting in ch- compared to other Romance languages
• Common English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese words of Arabic origin

Spanish

• Spanish word with one letter added, changed or missing
• The disappearance of the Spanish 'f' sound
• Spanish words that acquired an a- at the beginning (unlike other Romance languages)
• Spanish words with corrupted meaning
• Interesting etymologic convergences between Spanish and English

History of languages

• New proposed tree of Indo-European languages based on archeogenetics
• Revising the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European numerals
• Similar sounds typically used to designate basic words in most of the world languages
• List of old Germanic words of non-Indo-European origin
• List of Latin and Greek words of non-Indo-European origin
• Words from old Germanic languages in modern English and Romance languages
• Examples of Latin and Germanic words with common Indo-European roots
• Did Latin merge with Celtic languages to form Romance languages ?
• Walloon, a Germanised Romance language ?

Family names and place names

• Distribution maps of European surnames by country
• Comparative diversity of European family names
• Italian surnames by region
• French surnames by region
• Belgian surnames
• Toponymy of Flanders & Wallonia

Selected forum discussions

• Teaching English to French speakers
• What do you like and dislike about each language ?
• Illogical and irregular expressions in various languages
• What's the most difficult language you've taken to learn ?

Language learning

• Common French expressions

Tests & Trivia

• What language best fits your personality ?
• European country names in Chinese