Linguistic oddities

How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

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How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

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How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

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How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

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The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

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The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

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Why Inuktitut Has a Word That Means “I’m Tired of You”

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Why Inuktitut Has a Word That Means “I’m Tired of You”

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Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

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Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

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The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

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The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

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Why Some Languages Have No Word for “Left” or “Right”

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Why Some Languages Have No Word for “Left” or “Right”

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The Strangest Grammar Rules from Around the World

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The Strangest Grammar Rules from Around the World

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Curious Cases of Reduplication in Everyday Speech

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Curious Cases of Reduplication in Everyday Speech

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How Small Communities Are Resisting Globalization

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How Small Communities Are Resisting Globalization

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