Linguistic oddities

Languages That Use Clicks, Whistles, or Silence to Speak

Linguistic oddities

Languages That Use Clicks, Whistles, or Silence to Speak

7 months ago
Why Do Some Languages Have No Word for ‘Blue’?

Linguistic oddities

Why Do Some Languages Have No Word for ‘Blue’?

7 months ago
The Strange World of Negative Concord (Double Negatives That Make Sense)

Linguistic oddities

The Strange World of Negative Concord (Double Negatives That Make Sense)

7 months ago
Why Navajo Was Used as an Unbreakable Code in WWII

Linguistic oddities

Why Navajo Was Used as an Unbreakable Code in WWII

7 months ago
Polysynthetic Monsters: Languages That Pack Entire Sentences into a Word

Linguistic oddities

Polysynthetic Monsters: Languages That Pack Entire Sentences into a Word

7 months ago
How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

Linguistic oddities

How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

8 months ago
How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

Linguistic oddities

How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

8 months ago
The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

Linguistic oddities

The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

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

Linguistic oddities

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

8 months ago
Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

Linguistic oddities

Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

9 months ago