Unlock the Humor of Language with Linguistics Jokes.

A linguist dies.
At the funeral, a fellow academic asks his wife, “do you mind if I say a word?”
She nods.
He stands and says “Plethora”, and immediately sits back down.
She says, tearfully, “thank you, that means a lot.”

What language should the linguist end with?
Finnish!

The head cook was also a proud linguist. He boasted to his team that he'd finally figured out that champagne and sugar are the only words that sound like "sh" without starting with "sh".
The assistant hesitated for a moment then replied-
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"Chef! Are you sure?"

Linguists from France, Italy, and Germany were debating which language was the most beautiful.
The German representative was waving his hand frantically to be chosen to speak, when the French representative began to speak.

"French is certainly sublime. Consider the word Papillon. How could the word for butterfly be more beautiful than the butterfly itself”

The German is dying to speak, but then the Italian chimes in.

"Italian is as beautiful as French. Our word for butterfly is Farfalle, also more beautiful than the insect itself"

Finally it's the German's turn. He is dying to speak and blurts out,

"AND VAT IS WRONG WITH SCHMETTERLING!?"

I asked a linguist, "I'd like to speak to my cat. Can you teach me how?"
"For starters," she said, "the h is silent."

A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, "In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative." But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."