....languages spoken in the world.
Who, outside the linguistics profession, knew that one thing Chinese and Icelandic have in common is that they both resist borrowing words from other languages?
For language lovers, the NY Times Papercuts blogs suggests “One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost.”
Details at Papercuts here and at the University of California Press here.
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