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r/linguistics

395.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.5K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
395.3Kmembers
2.5Kbest post
397most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

38% 26% 14% 8% 8%
Link 38% Video 26% Text 14% Question 8% Image 8% Gallery 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Video 11 [Video] 4 [Pop article] 4 [Blogpost] 1 Announcement 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I'm teaching an intro to linguistics course at the university level this coming quarter. Would anyone be interested if I uploaded the lectures and ma…

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 170 question 2020

[xpost] These two women comparing accents

↑ 2.3K πŸ’¬ 64 video 2020

Mongolia to Re-Instate their Traditional Script by 2025, Abandoning Cyrillic and Soviet Past

↑ 2.2K πŸ’¬ 262 link 2020

Different words used across the US

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 397 image 2017

Indigenous Languages of the United States and Canada

↑ 1.7K πŸ’¬ 128 image 2021

The Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone with limited knowledge of Scots

↑ 1.7K πŸ’¬ 284 text 2020

Native speaking Gaelic communities could be lost β€˜in this generation’

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 175 link 2026

Cambridge University made all of its textbooks free in HTML format until May 31st. That's 58 books in the Language & Linguistics section alone.

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 63 link 2020

16 Southern African countries have adopted an indigenous language for interstate communication for the first time. They have broken the norm of using…

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 98 link 2019

IPA Scrabble!

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 147 gallery 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/linguistics, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.