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In languages like Inuktitut or Mohawk, a single, complex word can convey a thought that requires a full sentence in…
Over several millennia, a wave of migration spread a single language family from West-Central Africa to cover nearly the entire…
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The tragic case of "Genie," a feral child discovered in 1970 after a decade of silent isolation, offers a harrowing…
Beyond the cute misspellings of "doggo" and "pupper," the internet phenomenon of DoggoLingo has developed its own surprisingly consistent grammatical…
Mandarin is famously a tonal language, but what many learners quickly discover is that the tones they memorize often change…
Long before Nicaraguan Sign Language became famous, another sign language emerged organically on Martha's Vineyard. Due to a high rate…
Why can we describe a shade of blue with a dozen words, but struggle to articulate the scent of rain?…
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