To start the week, a #language quiz! True of false:

1. In #HINDI, the words for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" are the same.

2. In #ESKIMO-#ALEUT, there are many more words for "snow" than in English.

3. In #HEBREW, there are more than five ways to pronounce the word for "and."

4. In #TURKISH, a word's pronunciation depends on previous words in the sentence.

Cont'd...

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“it’s this kind of situation that gives people a desire to find themselves in this big world — to understand where they came from, and to remember and preserve the story of their ancestors.”
- The vanishing Aleut language and the future of Russia’s linguistic diversity — Meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/10/25/the-more-languages-we-have-the-better-we-can-understand-the-world @linguistics #ecolinguistics #linguistics #aleut

Can a dead language be revived? - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=57004 #hebrew was, others can if there's a will (and some financial support...) #aleut #linguistics