Bird and cetacean grammar, and series conclusion – Can Animals Grammar? #8

Human language as animal communication – Can Animals Grammar? #7

Dear past NativLang ~ your 15 years of animating languages and cultures

Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography

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

Are animal signals ever like words? – Can Animals Grammar? #5

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

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!

The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter

What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know

Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world's rarest sounds

Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language

Tower of Babel vs Linguistics - the quest for the first language

Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of.