// SUBREDDIT_PROFILE
r/asklinguistics
› This community is for people, particularly those without linguistics expertise, to ask questions about linguistics. It is not for debates, memes, etc. Please follow the commenting and posting guidelines in the pinned post and sidebar. Also see the wiki for our FAQ.
// MEMBERS
215,147
› subscribers
// POSTS_INDEXED
1,749
› analyzed records
// COMMUNITY_AGE
14y
› since 2012-06-02
// STATUS
[ok] active
› feed indexed
// QUICK_ACTIONS
// Recent posts in r/asklinguistics
[ latest we indexed · by upvotes ]- 01 Is using "Female" considered bad practice? ↑ 32 · 2026-11-04
- 02 The Romanian cyrilic script in Transistria ↑ 11 · 2026-11-04
- 03 How do Germans pronounce loanwords from English (like “Puzzle”)? Do they adapt them or use English pronunciation? ↑ 6 · 2026-11-07
- 04 Why does L vocalisation happen? ↑ 5 · 2026-11-04
- 05 I know these terms are really more subjective than objective, but if you had to make a distinction between a language and a dialect, how would you do it and what would it be? ↑ 3 · 2026-11-07
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// FAQ [ 3 entries ]
01 › What is r/asklinguistics about? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
r/asklinguistics is a Reddit community with 215,147 members. This community is for people, particularly those without linguistics expertise, to ask questions about linguistics.
It is not for debates, memes, etc. Please follow the commenting and posting guidelines in the pinned post and sidebar. Also see the wiki for our FAQ.
02 › How active is r/asklinguistics? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
r/asklinguistics has 215,147 subscribers and 1,749 posts in our index. It was created on 2012-06-02, 14 years ago.
03 › Which subreddits are similar to r/asklinguistics? [ expand ↓ ] [ collapse ↑ ]
Other Education & Science communities of a similar size include r/datasets (224,481 members), r/learnfrench (223,814 members), r/grammar (223,443 members), r/kurzgesagt (217,682 members). Each is listed with its own subscriber and post counts in the related communities section above.