Babylon
General information about linguistics presented in an easy to understand and interesting way: language families, origins, sociolinguistics and other topics.
Language relations
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Language families
"How languages are related" -
Language classification, typology
"What kind of beast is it?" -
History, etymology, language origin
"How words are born"
Linguistic structure
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Phonetics, sound inventory
"The sounds we speak" -
Morphology
"Words, how they are made and how they change" -
Syntax
"How to put words together" -
Semantics, lexicology
"The meaning behind words"
Language and thought
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Philosophy of language
"Language – thought – culture" -
Language planning and created languages
"How to make your own language" -
Interlinguistics
"Talking to a stranger"
Language and society
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Pragmatics
"Words in action" -
Sociolinguistics
"I say tomato, you say tomato" -
Language and identity
"When you speak, I know where you belong."
Language as medium
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Writing systems
"How to put it on paper" -
Sign languages
"How to say it without words"