Linguistic oddities

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

Linguistic oddities

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

11 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)

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

Linguistic oddities

Why Navajo Was Used as an Unbreakable Code in WWII

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

Linguistic oddities

Polysynthetic Monsters: Languages That Pack Entire Sentences into a Word

12 months ago
How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

Linguistic oddities

How Honorifics Create Hierarchies in Japanese and Korean

1 year ago
How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

Linguistic oddities

How Basque Survives Without Any Known Linguistic Family

1 year ago
The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

Linguistic oddities

The Only Known Language With No Abstract Color Terms

1 year 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”

1 year ago
Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

Linguistic oddities

Why Some Languages Have 15 Different Words for “Rice”

1 year ago
The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

Linguistic oddities

The Language That Has No Verbs: Welcome to Riau Indonesian

1 year ago