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Linguistic Discovery explores the science and diversity of language, a field known as linguistics.
Plus, can AI decode dead languages? And how do linguists reconstruct dead languages without AI? Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
A new study shows that Inuit languages really do have more words for snow, but what does that tell us about language?
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Also, here’s what Patroclus and Cleopatra have in common
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Why doesn’t English just have a plural “you” like other languages?
There are over thirty English words that derive from the Proto-Indo-European word for ‘one’. This is the story of how they came to be, and what that story teaches us about how language works.
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.