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

Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic

Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language

Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers

African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language

What English does - but most languages can't

Features English is missing - but most other languages have

Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis

Gvprtskvni - how is this even a word, Georgian!?

The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past

Maya Before, Maya After: How a Tenseless Language Talks Past and Future

Aizuchi: Why it's impolite not to 'chime in' in Japanese

What Genghis Khan's Mongolian Sounded Like - and how we know

Why Danish sounds funny to Scandinavians

Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility

Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems

What 'Ancient' Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know

What Etruscan Sounded Like - and how we know

How long can a language last before it's unrecognizable? - Dyirbal Glottochronology 2 of 2

How Fast Do Languages Evolve? - Dyirbal glottochronology 1 of 2

Does time work differently in different languages? - Hopi Time

Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?

The Caucasus: Mountains Full of Languages

Irish Words Can Mutate!