Journey to the Amazon basin to explore Hixkaryana, one of the few confirmed languages with a default Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) word…
Is a baby's babbling just adorable, random noise? Far from it. Linguists have discovered that babbling is a highly structured…
Far from being linguistic sludge, swearing is a surprisingly sophisticated system that follows its own intricate grammatical rules. Profanity is…
We don't just talk with our mouths; our hands are constantly performing a silent ballet that helps us think, speak,…
We marvel at the honeybee's 'waggle dance' and the intricate alarm calls of prairie dogs, but do these complex systems…
Deep in the Amazon, linguist Daniel Everett encountered a language that seemed to break all the rules. His claim that…
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