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Saison 2018
Date de diffusion
Fév 28, 2018
How China's scholars uncovered its ancient imperial language and founded a linguistic tradition that's uniquely separate from the West.
How China's scholars uncovered its ancient imperial language and founded a linguistic tradition that's uniquely separate from the West.
2018x2
Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems
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Date de diffusion
Avr 27, 2018
Not every language talks about family the same way. Why did Latin have so many words for "cousin"? When does "brother" also mean "sister" in Hawaiʻian? How did Ashanti kin terms thwart
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Not every language talks about family the same way. Why did Latin have so many words for "cousin"? When does "brother" also mean "sister" in Hawaiʻian? How did Ashanti kin terms thwart British colonizers? An animated exploration of kinship around the world!
2018x3
Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility
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Date de diffusion
Jun 29, 2018
Sometimes two languages are close enough that speakers of one understand the other. But it's not always fair. It's easier for Danish speakers to understand Swedish than the other way
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Sometimes two languages are close enough that speakers of one understand the other. But it's not always fair. It's easier for Danish speakers to understand Swedish than the other way around. Same goes for Portuguese and Spanish. Many other languages, too. How come?
Date de diffusion
Août 24, 2018
The history behind why Danish sounds like a "throat condition". I'm told Danes speak like they have a cough, hiccups, or a potato in their throat. I did some linguistic excavating find out why.
The history behind why Danish sounds like a "throat condition". I'm told Danes speak like they have a cough, hiccups, or a potato in their throat. I did some linguistic excavating find out why.
2018x5
Épisode final de la saison
What Genghis Khan's Mongolian Sounded Like - and how we know
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Date de diffusion
Oct 30, 2018
Genghis Khan? Or Chinggis Khaan? Maybe Khagan? History's most famous conqueror kept many secrets. Yet with some clever linguistic investigation, we can reanimate the sounds of his language.
Genghis Khan? Or Chinggis Khaan? Maybe Khagan? History's most famous conqueror kept many secrets. Yet with some clever linguistic investigation, we can reanimate the sounds of his language.
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