Journey to the Amazon basin to explore Hixkaryana, one of the few confirmed languages with a default Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) word…
Once officially declared extinct after the death of its last native speaker in the 18th century, the Cornish language (Kernewek)…
Journey to the highlands of Ecuador to discover Media Lengua, a remarkable "split-brain" language that combines the grammar of indigenous…
Could a nearly extinct language from Siberia be related to Navajo and other Native American languages? The fascinating Dené-Yeniseian hypothesis…
Imagine a world without 'left' or 'right,' where every instruction and description is given in cardinal directions. For speakers of…
Discover Michif, one of the world's most unique mixed languages, spoken by the Métis people. A fascinating blend of French…
While most languages belong to vast family trees, some stand utterly alone. These linguistic isolates, like the mysterious Basque of…
The death of a language is usually a slow fade, but Old Prussian was not so lucky. It was systematically…
Imagine trying to learn a language with no textbook, no translator, and no shared vocabulary. The monolingual fieldwork method is…
The Soviet Union's language policy was a dramatic paradox, beginning with the revolutionary promotion of over 100 minority languages through…
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