r/linguistics

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As of February 9, 2024

Subreddit Name

r/linguistics

Title

Linguistics

Language

en

Public Description

This is a community for discussions related to topics and questions about linguistics, the scientific study of human language. For common questions, please refer to the FAQs below. For those looking to deepen their appreciation for linguistics, the reading list is a list of recommended texts on areas of linguistic and language research compiled by resident experts here at Reddit.

Description

lin⋅guis⋅tics: the scientific study of human language

what form does it take?
how is meaning constructed?
how is it structured?
how is it produced?

As a scientific community, we have a broad take on what it means to study language. While we welcome and encourage respectful debates ac...

Subscribers

319,680

Created

March 28, 2008

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Total Submissions

75,774

Total Comments

921,600

Earliest Submission

March 28, 2008

Earliest Comment

April 2, 2008

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Most Distinctive Words

Year

2024

Total Words in Subreddit

924,622

Total Words in Reddit

119,924,722,855

Rank↕	Word↕	Occurrences in Subreddit ↕	Total Occurrences ↕	Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) ↕	Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) ↕	Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) ↕
#1	linguistics	5,112	111,666	5528.7	0.9	5937.65
#2	phonology	361	15,066	390.4	0.1	3107.80
#3	linguists	406	22,478	439.1	0.2	2342.68
#4	phonetics	200	20,300	216.3	0.2	1277.85
#5	consonants	360	46,017	389.3	0.4	1014.68
#6	vowel	1,001	129,591	1082.6	1.1	1001.85
#7	consonant	371	49,257	401.2	0.4	976.90
#8	voiceless	233	31,089	252.0	0.3	972.06
#9	vowels	658	104,299	711.6	0.9	818.26
#10	phonetic	317	52,955	342.8	0.4	776.42
#11	accusative	103	18,580	111.4	0.2	719.01
#12	linguist	177	38,420	191.4	0.3	597.53
#13	praat	73	18,257	79.0	0.2	518.61
#14	linguistic	548	142,719	592.7	1.2	498.02
#15	aspirated	114	29,955	123.3	0.2	493.61
#16	morphology	164	43,179	177.4	0.4	492.62
#17	nominative	71	19,580	76.8	0.2	470.32
#18	genitive	55	16,155	59.5	0.1	441.57
#19	dialects	445	137,639	481.3	1.1	419.34
#20	wiktionary	209	66,574	226.0	0.6	407.18
#21	verbs	327	113,179	353.7	0.9	374.74
#22	nouns	284	99,131	307.2	0.8	371.58
#23	transcriptions	47	16,493	50.8	0.1	369.61
#24	germanic	374	132,171	404.5	1.1	367.01
#25	breathy	69	24,898	74.6	0.2	359.44
#26	participle	50	18,828	54.1	0.2	344.44
#27	prepositions	43	16,795	46.5	0.1	332.07
#28	linguistically	68	27,510	73.5	0.2	320.60
#29	infinitive	38	15,596	41.1	0.1	316.02
#30	attested	77	32,262	83.3	0.3	309.56
#31	pinyin	47	19,902	50.8	0.2	306.30
#32	chomsky	106	46,944	114.6	0.4	292.87
#33	reconstructed	80	35,619	86.5	0.3	291.31
#34	suffix	189	87,322	204.4	0.7	280.73
#35	dialect	485	234,356	524.5	2.0	268.42
#36	suffixes	67	33,573	72.5	0.3	258.84
#37	pronunciations	83	41,865	89.8	0.3	257.14
#38	trill	58	31,657	62.7	0.3	237.63
#39	phonetically	64	35,217	69.2	0.3	235.71
#40	transitive	47	25,868	50.8	0.2	235.66
#41	aspiration	131	72,627	141.7	0.6	233.95
#42	typology	40	22,311	43.3	0.2	232.53
#43	semantically	30	16,849	32.4	0.1	230.94
#44	demonstrative	30	16,926	32.4	0.1	229.89
#45	dravidian	39	22,015	42.2	0.2	229.77
#46	languages	3,149	1,784,588	3405.7	14.9	228.86
#47	proto	591	346,434	639.2	2.9	221.26
#48	preposition	42	25,219	45.4	0.2	216.01
#49	grammatical	242	148,450	261.7	1.2	211.44
#50	verb	533	328,950	576.5	2.7	210.16

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