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the only software that installs itself in a toddler's brain without a manual.
means A structured system of words, sounds, and grammar that people use to communicate meaning to one another.
from From Latin 'lingua,' meaning 'tongue' — the body part doing the talking became the word for talk itself. It traveled through Old French 'langage' before settling into English, but the bones are pure tongue: many languages still name themselves after that wagging muscle behind the teeth.
- daily death
- a language dies roughly every two weeks
- total count
- around 7,000 spoken worldwide today
- deep ancestry
- chimps and humans share no inherited words
- sign equals speech
- sign languages have full grammar and accents
- thought shaper
- color words can change what you actually see
for instance
mandarin chinese — spoken by 1.1 billion native speakers, primarily in china
english — official language in 67 countries, 1.5 billion speakers globally