NativLang
This is where I share animated stories as I learn from & about people living on a planet full of languages and cultures.
The history of looking up Chinese characters in dictionaries
Chinese in two timelines: linguistic vs dynastic
Folk Grammar: Theories of Language from the Inside
Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!
Bird and cetacean grammar, and series conclusion – Can Animals Grammar? #8
Human language as animal communication – Can Animals Grammar? #7
Dear past NativLang ~ your 15 years of animating languages and cultures
Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography
World's Hardest Spelling Bee... is a writing systems bee! But what even is writing?
Do these animals form grammatical sequences? – Can Animals Grammar? #6
Are animal signals ever like words? – Can Animals Grammar? #5
Animals make "wild" syllables – Can Animals Grammar? #4
Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar? #3
Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar? #2
Can animals grammar? – introduction to my animated series
SOV: Why is this the most popular word order across languages?
OSV: Why is this word order so rare in languages?
What are (linguistic) nothings? ~ Reading comments and studying Saussure together
Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros
What makes Papuan languages so unique? - features from the area with the most languages
New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages
Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages
Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems
The Languages of Africa
Writing doesn't always end in alphabets - the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know
Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time
But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?
Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?
First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch