We all know onomatopoeia, but many languages have something far richer: ideophones. These "adverbs of the senses" don't just mimic…
Over several millennia, a wave of migration spread a single language family from West-Central Africa to cover nearly the entire…
Beyond the simple "he/she/it" of English, many languages categorize the world in ways that are deeply tied to culture and…
Go beyond familiar consonants and vowels on a journey into the world's phonetic rarities, from the sharp clicks of Southern…
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