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Renaissance on the bayou: Revitalizing the Chitimacha language
The Chitimacha language was once thought to be extinct, but today is undergoing a renaissance as young people learn the language again.
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The Chitimacha language was once thought to be extinct, but today is undergoing a renaissance as young people learn the language again.
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The earliest version of cuneiform wasn't used to write language at all—it was used to count! And that Sumerian system of counting still influences our counting systems today. Here's the story of Sumerian numerals.
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Where do the world's writing systems come from?
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Linguistic Discovery explores the science and diversity of language, a field known as linguistics.
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A language isolate is a language that is unrelated to any other known language.