Linguistic oddities

Linguistic oddities

Polysynthetic Monsters: Languages That Pack Entire Sentences into a Word

10 months ago

Linguistic oddities

How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

11 months ago

Linguistic oddities

How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

11 months ago

Linguistic oddities

The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

11 months ago

Linguistic oddities

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

12 months ago

Linguistic oddities

Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

1 year ago

Linguistic oddities

The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

1 year ago

Linguistic oddities

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

1 year ago

Linguistic oddities

The Strangest Grammar Rules from Around the World

1 year ago

Linguistic oddities

Curious Cases of Reduplication in Everyday Speech

1 year ago