Linguistic oddities

Linguistic oddities

Why Navajo Was Used as an Unbreakable Code in WWII

9 months ago

Linguistic oddities

Polysynthetic Monsters: Languages That Pack Entire Sentences into a Word

9 months ago

Linguistic oddities

How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

9 months ago

Linguistic oddities

How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

9 months ago

Linguistic oddities

The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

10 months ago

Linguistic oddities

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

10 months ago

Linguistic oddities

Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

11 months ago

Linguistic oddities

The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

12 months ago

Linguistic oddities

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

12 months ago

Linguistic oddities

The Strangest Grammar Rules from Around the World

12 months ago