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01: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Sign Language

Sign languages have all the same grammatical requirements as spoken languages. In something like two thirds of the world's languages, the word for nose has an n in it. Aviation english is an attempt to make sure that people who work in the international civil aviation organization all speak a certain kind of English. Yihad: We could all just gesture at each other, or all ean sign language. They will.

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