11:01

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

10:14

Animals make "wild" syllables – Can Animals Grammar? #4

07:40

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

12:06

Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar? #2

06:38

Can animals grammar? – introduction to my animated series

17:03

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

15:14

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

12:20

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

12:17

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

12:44

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

18:48

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

11:56

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

10:07

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

10:04

The Languages of Africa

12:01

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

11:02

What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know

08:29

Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time

05:31

But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?

08:58

Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?

09:11

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

10:03

The Languages of Siberia

10:03

The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)

06:25

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

10:55

Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic

10:30

Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language

08:20

Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers

12:01

African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language

09:25

What English does - but most languages can't

08:57

Features English is missing - but most other languages have

12:30

Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis

09:16

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

10:25

The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past

07:51

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

06:08

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

09:33

What Genghis Khan's Mongolian Sounded Like - and how we know

07:33

Why Danish sounds funny to Scandinavians

08:32

Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility

09:28

Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems

07:57

What "Ancient" Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know

07:46

What Etruscan Sounded Like - and how we know

06:30

How long can a language last before it's unrecognizable? - Dyirbal Glottochronology 2 of 2

05:45

How Fast Do Languages Evolve? - Dyirbal glottochronology 1 of 2

08:31

Does time work differently in different languages? - Hopi Time

06:51

Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?

08:57

The Caucasus: Mountains Full of Languages

05:46

Irish Words Can Mutate!

03:49

The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter

06:34

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

06:17

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

07:42

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

05:55

Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world's rarest sounds

05:59

Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language

05:21

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

11:53

Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of.

09:38

How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire

06:34

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

04:02

The Longest Word in Any Language

05:59

What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know

05:02

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

06:08

Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters