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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 1

1. "Kadour Hachemi Karim Directeur des services vétérinaires au niveau du ministre de l agriculture"
2. buyer's remorse in reverse
3. Korean romanization question

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 2

1. English suffixes

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 4

1. Palatalization in Hunsrückisch?
2. What is the possessive form of "works" in the sense of a factory?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 6

1. What is she saying (in Hebrew)?
2. British Raj terminology
3. Norwegian only has 4.4m speakers worldwide, and is on DuoLingo, but why does Kinyarwanda NOT show up on DuoLingo even though it has ~20m speakers?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 7

1. From German to English, please translate this catchy Pippi theme song?
2. What does the Greek varia indicate?
3. Okinawan and pitch accent?
4. Featured articles that were deleted.

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 8

1. Please translate from Korean to English, the lyrics to this beautiful-sounding song "Saranghaneun Iege"

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 10

1. [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollning Ollning]
2. Word for definition of requiring excellence

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 12

1. Italian surname question

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 13

1. Japanese

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 15

1. English hyphen
2. Korean romanization question (by 40bus)

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 16

1. Ancient Greek letter rho and Latin letters rh
2. English full stop

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 17

1. Some questions
2. English H
3. What countries/languages use decimal separators for years?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 18

1. Pinyin
2. English-speaking countries

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 19

1. Initial /r/ as obstruent in Indian English?
2. Temperatures

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 20

1. Sequences of aspirate stops in Ancient Greek and their reflexes as fricatives in Modern Greek?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 21

1. Were the concepts of "pitch accent" and "syllable" recently introduced from the West in Japanese linguistic science and grammar?
2. Two questions

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 22

1. To borrow trouble
2. Repetition
3. Demonyms

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 24

1. Language forums

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 25

1. Ways to improve proposed Help:IPA page

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 27

1. Weird sentence

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 29

1. A few questions

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 30

1. Teaching pronunciation for Spanish in 17th c. France and Italy?
2. VIP

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024 December 31

1. Spanish consonants
2. The <surname> woman
3. English vowels