The mandatory truth-checking of Tuyuca

The wild world of human speech

Chapter 1

Sounds you didn't know humans could make

Chapter 2

Grammar systems that will bend your brain

Chapter 3

Writing systems designed like puzzles

Chapter 4

Languages that change how you see the world

YOUR GOAL

Master of The wild world of human speech

Ch 4 · Languages that change how you see the world
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duolingo Linguistic Relativity

Forget left and right, / think north and south, / we map it all.

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Guugu Yimithirr has no 'left' or 'right'—only north, south, east, and west.

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The color boundaries of the Dani people

duolingo A split color spectrum illustrates the cool mili and warm mola boundaries.

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The mandatory truth-checking of Tuyuca

duolingo A Tuyuca speaker gestures to explain an event in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.

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Fun Fact

Tuyuca evidential endings: You cannot say someone fell without grammatically stating how you know.

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Gossip

Should English adopt mandatory 'evidential' endings to stop rumors?

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Quiz

Where is the Guugu Yimithirr language natively spoken?

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Gossip

Would you want to live without the words 'left' and 'right'?

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Quiz

How does the Hopi language of Arizona handle the concept of time grammatically?

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How do speakers of the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr describe directions?

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Quiz

What does the Dani color term 'mili' represent?

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Quiz

How many evidential verb endings does the Amazonian Tuyuca language have?

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How many basic color terms exist in the Dani language of West Papua?

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What must a Tuyuca speaker include in every verb they use?

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What famous linguistic hypothesis suggests that the structure of a language influences how its speakers perceive the world?

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