#languagesoftheworld

[benhuynh]

How many languages are spoken in each country?

#languagesoftheworld #spokenlanguages #worldlanguages

[minstrel75itg]

What The Fact… WTF for December 26th. Dolly Pentreath, assumed to be the last fluent speaker of ancient Cornish, died in her home in Mousehole, England, on Dec. 26, 1777, taking the language with her into extinction. Her defiant last words were, “Me ne vidn cewsel Sawznek!”—“I don’t want to speak English!” The 85-year-old fishmonger had a reputation for cursing people out in long streams of incomprehensible profanity during moments of anger. When Daines Barrington, an English linguist, came to Mousehole looking for the legendary guardian of Cornish, Pentreath unleashed upon him, “in an angry tone of voice of two or three minutes,” a torrent of linguistic abuse in her expiring tongue. When one day a man knocked over her fish basket in the marketplace, she pronounced him “Kronek hager du!”—“An ugly black toad!” #cornishlanguage #ancientcornish #cornish #worldhistory #languagesoftheworld #historyofengland #england https://www.instagram.com/p/CX98Hd2rjIZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[linguisticjourneys]

[ttlynn31]

The many languages ball. #languagesoftheworld #merrychristmas #vacationmode #atlantaga #worldofcocacola (at World of Coca-Cola) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8rZmsg9tn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xrk9fvwawuzy

[donnettawilliams]

❤️ this #differentlanguages #repost via @funny_african_pics #languagesoftheworld #accents https://www.instagram.com/p/BoWsgzSAZHd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e3bkg6l59sdl

[delicatelychaotictrash-blog]

Pies

para qué los quiero

si tengo alas para volar

Frida Kahlo

(Drawing: NMLorgen)

[unravellingmag]

[Languages Of The World]

Mother Tongue One Never Forgets

by Asya Pereltsvaig

A neurolinguistic study conducted by McGill University researchers suggests that people who have been exposed to a language from a young age and another language later on in life process language like bilinguals—even if they were only exposed to the language in infancy and don't speak it. "Crucially, the fMRI results for bilingual and adoptee groups are strikingly similar to each other, yet different from those of the monolingual participants."

Read more: http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/neurolinguistics/mother-tongue-one-never-forgets.html