nice!

Collection of language universals

really stupid sapir/whorf-type article about a language in the andes where people gesture behind them to indicate the future. Considering how memory works, this is actually quite logical - you can only see the past

beautiful language distribution maps

Why is there this craving to see Chinese as some sort of weird Forbidden City? It's just a language, much like any other; it happens to be written with a more complicated set of graphs than most

language isolate in northern pakistan

handy guide to suffixes in everyone's favorite agglutinative moon language

some australian languages had a whole other lexicon you would use within earshot of taboo relatives

neat sketch of the language

fascinating paperby slightly sun-baked linguist deep in the Amazon on a language unlike any other

audio sample of a French speaker with a provençal accent

twin verbs for "to be" in romance languages and their origin