NativLang

9:17

Bird and cetacean grammar, and series conclusion – Can Animals Grammar? #8

8:01

Human language as animal communication – Can Animals Grammar? #7

6:18

Dear past NativLang ~ your 15 years of animating languages and cultures

21:28

Pictorial books from Mexico defy our definition of writing – Ñuu Dzaui pictography

14:30

World's Hardest Spelling Bee... is a writing systems bee! But what even is writing?

11:28

Do these animals form grammatical sequences? – Can Animals Grammar? #6

11:01

Are animal signals ever like words? – Can Animals Grammar? #5

10:14

Animals make "wild" syllables – Can Animals Grammar? #4

7:40

Why talking animals disappointed most everyone – Can Animals Grammar? #3

12:06

Teaching animals to be grammatical – Can Animals Grammar? #2

6:38

Can animals grammar? – introduction to my animated series

17:03

SOV: Why is this the most popular word order across languages?

15:14

OSV: Why is this word order so rare in languages?

12:20

What are (linguistic) nothings? ~ Reading comments and studying Saussure together

12:17

Why linguists believe in invisible words - the story of zeros

12:44

What makes Papuan languages so unique? - features from the area with the most languages

18:48

New Guinea - lessons from a cradle of agriculture and languages

11:56

Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

10:07

Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems

10:04

The Languages of Africa

12:01

Writing doesn't always end in alphabets - the enigmatic Egyptian counterexample

11:02

What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know

8:29

Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time

5:31

But are Mesoamerican glyphs still used today?

8:58

Is this the earliest writing in Mesoamerica?

9:11

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

10:03

The Languages of Siberia

10:03

The Languages of Siberia - OLD (bad audio)

6:25

The Ainu language - short history, plus a note about last speakers and pandemics

10:55

Mongolic: meet a language family, including Para-Mongolic

10:30

Khitan: deciphering China's forgotten Para-Mongolic language

8:20

Language nods - meaningful messages from native speakers

12:01

African Romance: searching for traces of a lost Latin language

9:25

What English does - but most languages can't

8:57

Features English is missing - but most other languages have

12:30

Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis

9:16

Gvprtskvni - how is this even a word, Georgian!?

10:25

The complicated linguistics behind how the Maya talk about the past

7:51

Maya Before, Maya After: How a Tenseless Language Talks Past and Future

6:08

Aizuchi: Why it's impolite not to "chime in" in Japanese

9:33

What Genghis Khan's Mongolian Sounded Like - and how we know

7:33

Why Danish sounds funny to Scandinavians

8:32

Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility

9:28

Family Trees in Other Languages: our world's 7 kinship systems

7:57

What "Ancient" Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know

7:46

What Etruscan Sounded Like - and how we know

6:30

How long can a language last before it's unrecognizable? - Dyirbal Glottochronology 2 of 2

5:45

How Fast Do Languages Evolve? - Dyirbal glottochronology 1 of 2

8:31

Does time work differently in different languages? - Hopi Time

6:51

Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?

8:57

The Caucasus: Mountains Full of Languages

5:46

Irish Words Can Mutate!

3:49

The Other Z - why you mispronounce this Scottish letter

6:34

What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know

6:17

Last Spartans: the survival of Laconic Greek

7:42

What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know

5:55

Weird Phonemes - pronouncing the world's rarest sounds

5:59

Hungarian explained - such long words, such an isolated language

5:21

Tower of Babel vs Linguistics - the quest for the first language

11:53

Aztec and Mayan are totally different languages. Sort of.

9:38

How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire

6:34

How Spanish got its ñ - the story behind that "n with a tilde"

4:02

The Longest Word in Any Language

5:59

What Latin Sounded Like - and how we know

5:02

Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters

6:08

Kanji Story - How Japan Overloaded Chinese Characters

7:11

The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese

9:04

The Hardest Language To Spell

6:59

Muslim Vikings and Magic Letters: the odd history of Runes pt 1

6:03

The Tribe That Cursed Too Much - the linguistics behind Oceanic taboos

5:59

The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script

3:45

How Cold War Computers Failed At Russian - MT #2 - with CompChomp

4:44

How Cold War Computers Translated Russian - MT #1 - with CompChomp

5:04

Why PassWORDS Aren't Words Anymore - with CompChomp

5:10

Are Programming Languages Really Languages? - with CompChomp

0:55

Code Meets Language - a short series with CompChomp

5:45

Modding the Latin Alphabet: the odd history of G, J, U, W, Y

4:29

CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters

14:56

Thoth's Pill - fibs, fables, fans and extras

47:25

Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

2:03

Reliving the history of writing - History of Writing Systems #12 (Recap)

4:24

How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)

4:13

India's awesome hybrid alphabet thing - History of Writing Systems #10 (Alphasyllabary)

4:36

Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)

3:47

The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)

4:35

How Egypt invented the alphabet - History of Writing Systems #7 (Abjad)

5:31

What's hiding inside Maya glyphs - History of Writing Systems #6 (Syllabary)

5:10

Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)

4:43

Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)

3:46

How writing got civilized - History of Writing Systems #3 (Logographs)

3:15

The birth of writing! - History of Writing Systems #2 (Pictographs in a cave)

3:34

What if writing didn't exist? - History of Writing Systems #1

1:13

Dance of the Camel feat Sejong & Ashoka - Thoth's Pill (extra)

1:05

Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing (TRAILER)

0:24

Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing (TEASER)

2:50

Cuneiform Hand-Me-Downs - how Sumerian outlived its speakers

0:56

Animated About Language! - NativLang channel trailer

1:30

New Series & Brand Promises. Oh, and what’s your fav Upload Day?

2:27

Writing Systems, Graphemes and Scripts - Decipherment Club #3

3:01

Sing like you mean it! - the Linguistics of Tonal Languages