NativLang

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This is where I share animated stories as I learn from & about people living on a planet full of languages and cultures.

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Uppercases Capital Letters Across the World Get Messy, and Not Just in Book Titles

Uppercases Capital Letters Across the World Get Messy, and Not Just in Book Titles

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30.8K views·1 week ago

How to Hide a Vowel in Southeast Asia antivowels, why many scripts have them, why some ditched them

How to Hide a Vowel in Southeast Asia antivowels, why many scripts have them, why some ditched them

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66.3K views·1 month ago

Why colonizing Southern Africa didn't break its linguistic diversity; did it just add to it

Why colonizing Southern Africa didn't break its linguistic diversity; did it just add to it

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37.2K views·2 months ago

This language shifted from most common to rarest word order

This language shifted from most common to rarest word order

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40.9K views·2 months ago

How the Han dynasty changed Chinese pronunciation

How the Han dynasty changed Chinese pronunciation

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70.6K views·4 months ago

The history of looking up Chinese characters in dictionaries

The history of looking up Chinese characters in dictionaries

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38.9K views·5 months ago

Chinese in two timelines linguistic vs dynastic

Chinese in two timelines linguistic vs dynastic

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61.1K views·6 months ago

Folk Grammar Theories of Language from the Inside

Folk Grammar Theories of Language from the Inside

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37.1K views·8 months ago

Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!

Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!

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66.9K views·9 months ago

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

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

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19.7K views·1 year ago

Human language as animal communication – Can Animals Grammar #7

Human language as animal communication – Can Animals Grammar #7

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27.2K views·1 year ago

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

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

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26.8K views·1 year ago

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

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

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208.4K views·1 year ago

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

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

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58.3K views·1 year ago

Do these animals form grammatical sequences – Can Animals Grammar #6

Do these animals form grammatical sequences – Can Animals Grammar #6

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25.7K views·1 year ago

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

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

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28.1K views·2 years ago

Animals make wild syllables – Can Animals Grammar #4

Animals make wild syllables – Can Animals Grammar #4

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31.1K views·2 years ago

Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar #3

Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar #3

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38.7K views·2 years ago

Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar #2

Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar #2

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41.4K views·2 years ago

Can animals grammar – introduction to my animated series

Can animals grammar – introduction to my animated series

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56.0K views·2 years ago

SOV Why is this the most popular word order across languages

SOV Why is this the most popular word order across languages

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149.6K views·2 years ago

OSV Why is this word order so rare in languages

OSV Why is this word order so rare in languages

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832.8K views·3 years ago

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

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

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56.7K views·3 years ago

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

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287.7K views·3 years ago

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

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

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189.9K views·3 years ago

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

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128.7K views·4 years ago

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

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3.3M views·4 years ago

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

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919.0K views·5 years ago

The Languages of Africa

The Languages of Africa

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767.1K views·5 years ago

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

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

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385.5K views·5 years ago

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