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World's Hardest Spelling Bee... is a writing systems bee! But what even is writing?

Do these animals form grammatical sequences? – Can Animals Grammar? #6

Animals make 'wild' syllables – Can Animals Grammar? #4

Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar? #3

Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar? #2

Can animals grammar? – introduction to my animated series

SOV: Why is this the most popular word order across languages?

OSV: Why is this word order so rare in languages?

What are (linguistic) nothings? ~ Reading comments and studying Saussure together

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

What makes Papuan languages so unique? - features from the area with the most languages

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

The Languages of Africa

Writing doesn't always end in alphabets - the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample

What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know

Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time

But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?

Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

The Languages of Siberia

The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)

The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics