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Crash Course Linguistics

World Languages

Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!

World Languages

Season 1 Episode 14 | 11m 31s | CC

We learn about these factors - the difficulty of distinguishing between languages and dialects, various political factors, and the fact that not all languages have the same degree of resources and records - that make it difficult to determine what exactly counts as a language.

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