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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…
For over a century, North America's tallest peak was at the center of a linguistic and cultural war. This is…
The Inca emperors, divine rulers of a vast Andean empire, held a powerful secret—a language spoken only among themselves. This…
While the Navajo are rightly famous, the Comanche Code Talkers of WWII's European Theater created an equally unbreakable code. Based…
The Pirahã language of the Amazon defies nearly every rule of "universal grammar", sparking one of modern linguistics' fiercest debates.…
Does your language dictate how you perceive time itself? The famous and controversial claim that the Hopi language has no…
Journey to the Amazon basin to explore Hixkaryana, one of the few confirmed languages with a default Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) word…
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