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Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography
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World's Hardest Spelling Bee... is a writing systems bee! But what even is writing?
14:30
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Do these animals form grammatical sequences? – Can Animals Grammar? #6
11:28
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Are animal signals ever like words? – Can Animals Grammar? #5
11:01
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Animals make "wild" syllables – Can Animals Grammar? #4
10:14
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Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar? #3
7:40
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Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar? #2
12:06
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Can animals grammar? – introduction to my animated series
6:38
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SOV: Why is this the most popular word order across languages?
17:03
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OSV: Why is this word order so rare in languages?
15:14
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What are (linguistic) nothings? ~ Reading comments and studying Saussure together
12:20
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Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros
12:17
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What makes Papuan languages so unique? - features from the area with the most languages
12:44
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New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages
18:48
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Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages
11:56
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Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems
10:07
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The Languages of Africa
10:04
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Writing doesn't always end in alphabets - the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample
12:01
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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know
11:02
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Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time
8:29
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But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?
5:31
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Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?
8:58
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First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch
9:11
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The Languages of Siberia
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The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)
10:03
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The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics
6:25
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Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic
10:55
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Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language
10:30
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Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers
8:20
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African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language
12:01
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What English does - but most languages can't
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Features English is missing - but most other languages have
8:57
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Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis
12:30
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Gvprtskvni - how is this even a word, Georgian!?
9:16
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The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past
10:25
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Maya Before, Maya After: How a Tenseless Language Talks Past and Future
7:51
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Aizuchi: Why it's impolite not to "chime in" in Japanese
6:08
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What Genghis Khan's Mongolian Sounded Like - and how we know
9:33
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Why Danish sounds funny to Scandinavians
7:33
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Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility
8:32
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Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems
9:28
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What "Ancient" Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know
7:57
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What Etruscan Sounded Like - and how we know
7:46
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How long can a language last before it's unrecognizable? - Dyirbal Glottochronology 2 of 2
6:30
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How Fast Do Languages Evolve? - Dyirbal glottochronology 1 of 2
5:45
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Does time work differently in different languages? - Hopi Time
8:31
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Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?
6:51
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The Caucasus: Mountains Full of Languages
8:57
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Irish Words Can Mutate!
5:46
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The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter
3:49
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What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know
6:34
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Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek
6:17
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What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know
7:42
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Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world's rarest sounds
5:55
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Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language
5:59
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Tower of Babel vs Linguistics - the quest for the first language
5:21
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Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of.
11:53
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How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire
9:38
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How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"
6:34
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The Longest Word in Any Language
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What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know
5:59
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Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters
5:02
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Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters
6:08
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The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese
7:11
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The Hardest Language To Spell
9:04
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Muslim Vikings and Magic Letters: the odd history of Runes pt 1
6:59
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The Tribe That Cursed Too Much - the linguistics behind Oceanic taboos
6:03
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The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script
5:59
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How Cold War Computers Failed At Russian - MT #2 - with CompChomp
3:45
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How Cold War Computers Translated Russian - MT #1 - with CompChomp
4:44
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Why PassWORDS Aren't Words Anymore - with CompChomp
5:04
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Are Programming Languages Really Languages? - with CompChomp
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Code Meets Language - a short series with CompChomp
0:55
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Modding the Latin Alphabet: the odd history of G, J, U, W, Y
5:45
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CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters
4:29
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Thoth's Pill - fibs, fables, fans and extras
14:56
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Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
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Reliving the history of writing - History of Writing Systems #12 (Recap)
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How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)
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India's awesome hybrid alphabet thing - History of Writing Systems #10 (Alphasyllabary)
4:13
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Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
4:36
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The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)
3:47
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How Egypt invented the alphabet - History of Writing Systems #7 (Abjad)
4:35
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What's hiding inside Maya glyphs - History of Writing Systems #6 (Syllabary)
5:31
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Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)
5:10
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Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)
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How writing got civilized - History of Writing Systems #3 (Logographs)
3:46
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The birth of writing! - History of Writing Systems #2 (Pictographs in a cave)
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What if writing didn't exist? - History of Writing Systems #1
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Dance of the Camel feat Sejong & Ashoka - Thoth's Pill (extra)
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Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing (TRAILER)
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Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing (TEASER)
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Cuneiform Hand-Me-Downs - how Sumerian outlived its speakers
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Animated About Language! - NativLang channel trailer
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New Series & Brand Promises. Oh, and what’s your fav Upload Day?
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Writing Systems, Graphemes and Scripts - Decipherment Club #3
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Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages
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Why Some Ancient Texts Will NEVER Be Read - Decipherment Club #2
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How to Decipher an Ancient Script - Decipherment Club #1
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A New Year for Language - thanks for 2014, happy 2015!
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