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May 2021
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79. What is the strangest language in th...

Thomas Wilkinson
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What is the strangest language in the world? Many linguists believe that all languages share certain universal rules and features. They believe that humans have innate or natural grammar that we are born with. However, there is a language from South America which is so strange and peculiar that it challenges this theory! Let’s discuss it in this episode of T ... Show More
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