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Designer Transforms Arabic Words into Illustrations of Their Literal Meanings

Designer Mahmoud Tammam posed a creative challenge to himself: an experimental typographic series of Arabic illustrated words.

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Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One.

The Taushiro tribe vanished into the jungles of the Amazon basin in Peru generations ago. Amadeo García García is now the last native speaker of their language.

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Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.

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How do you draw a circle? We analyzed 100,000 circles to show how culture shapes our instincts

Did you start at the top or bottom? Clockwise or counterclockwise?

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The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order.

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Alien Interpreters: How Linguists Would Talk to Extraterrestrials

Language experts describe how cultures with nothing in common can learn to communicate