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.

18:06

Was Cuneiform Originally Sumerian? Linguistic doubts about the world's oldest writing

NativLang · 94K views · 3 days ago

5:59

Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language

NativLang · 2.2M views · 9 years ago

9:11

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

NativLang · 252K views · 6 years ago

10:25

The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past

NativLang · 154K views · 7 years ago

11:02

Chinese in two timelines: linguistic vs dynastic

NativLang · 64K views · 11 months ago

6:30

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

NativLang · 660K views · 9 years ago

3:01

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages

NativLang · 542K views · 11 years ago

13:28

Folk Grammar: Theories of Language from the Inside

NativLang · 39K views · 1 year ago

5:59

Romance Languages: Introduction to Vulgar Latin & Romance Linguistics

NativLang · 49K views · 13 years ago

4:42

Intro to Historical Linguistics: Comparative Method & Language Family Trees (lesson 3 of 4)

NativLang · 63K views · 14 years ago

14:30

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

NativLang · 60K views · 2 years ago

11:56

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

NativLang · 3.3M views · 5 years ago

7:11

The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese

NativLang · 2.1M views · 10 years ago

11:31

The oldest cuneiform tablets aren't all that readable (in the usual sense of the word)

NativLang · 64K views · 1 month ago

9:04

Die Am Schwierigsten Zu Schreibende Sprache

NativLang · 4.1M views · 10 years ago

6:17

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

NativLang · 542K views · 9 years ago

14:17

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

NativLang · 41K views · 7 months ago

9:38

How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire

NativLang · 429K views · 9 years ago

6:51

Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?

NativLang · 717K views · 9 years ago

5:45

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

NativLang · 213K views · 9 years ago

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