Did you know that when you order tapioca or talk about jaguars, you are speaking a bit of Tupi-Guarani? Explore…
Explore the fascinating sociolinguistic anomaly of Paraguay, the only nation in the Americas where a vast majority of the non-indigenous…
Mel Gibson’s *Apocalypto* did more than deliver high-octane action; it immersed global audiences in the sounds of Màaya t'àan (Yucatec…
Joseph Greenberg shocked the linguistics world in 1987 by claiming all Native American languages belonged to just three families, sparking…
Unlike almost everywhere else in the Americas, the indigenous language of Paraguay, Guaraní, is spoken by the vast majority of…
Long before the invention of the computer, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy utilized a binary system of white and purple shells to…
The viral myth claims *mamihlapinatapai* is an untranslatable Yaghan word for a romantic, unspoken look. The truth, however, is far…
Ever get confused when a sentence has too many "he"s or "they"s? Some languages have a brilliant built-in solution for…
Imagine a language where "I don't hear very well" isn't a sentence, but a single, perfectly grammatical word. Welcome to…
In Quechua, it’s grammatically impossible to state a fact without also specifying how you know it. This fascinating system of…
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