How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language
The Atlantic
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».
From Weekly Filet #217, in July 2015.
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