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Joseph Greenberg shocked the linguistics world in 1987 by claiming all Native American languages belonged to just three families, sparking…
Why do almost all languages develop a word for "Red" before they create a word for "Blue"? This post explores…
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How do we know who "he" is in the sentence "John said he was tired"? While English leaves it ambiguous,…
Ever wondered why you can't say "one rice" in English or "one bread" in Chinese? This post dives into the…
While language isolates like Basque stand as mysterious linguistic islands with no living relatives, dialect continuums show us how languages…
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