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How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language

The Atlantic
How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language

This is fascinating: A language with a total vocabulary of a mere 123 words that – they say – can be learned in 30 hours. Fittingly, its word for «simple» is the same as the one for «good».


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