ethnolinguistics

North of My Foot: Languages Without ‘Left’ and ‘Right’

Imagine a world without 'left' or 'right,' where you'd say "there's a bug on your south leg." This post explores…

3 weeks ago

Counting in Base-20: A World Beyond Ten

Why do we count in tens? While it seems natural, many cultures from the Mayans to the Basques developed sophisticated…

3 weeks ago

Language Stories: Darwin and the Birth of Ethnolinguistics

The narrative of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, while famous for its contributions to evolutionary biology, is seldom…

2 years ago

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