The Languages of Africa

Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

What English does - but most languages can't

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

Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?

But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?

The Languages of Siberia

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

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

Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic

Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language

African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language

Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis

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

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

The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past

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

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

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

The Caucasus: Mountains Full of Languages

The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter

Irish Words Can Mutate!

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

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.

How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire

How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"

Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters

Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters

The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese

The Hardest Language To Spell

The Tribe That Cursed Too Much - the linguistics behind Oceanic taboos

Muslim Vikings and Magic Letters: the odd history of Runes pt 1

Cuneiform Hand-Me-Downs - how Sumerian outlived its speakers

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages

Bee Dance Language - the linguistics behind animal language

Can Animals Talk? - the linguistics behind animal language

9 Uncracked Codes & Undeciphered Scripts

Secret Codes - Cryptography, Decipherment and the Imitation Game

Telling a Scary Story: history of prose horror (with Critical Lit)

What's the reason and rhyme for rhymes?

Solving your way through languages & codes: the International Linguistics Olympiad

What will Future English be like?

9 Extreme Language Facts!

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

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

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

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

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

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

Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?

Features English is missing - but most other languages have

CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters

Modding the Latin Alphabet: the odd history of G, J, U, W, Y

The Longest Word in Any Language

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

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