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What do all human languages have in common and in what ways are they different? How can language be used to trace different peoples and their past? How do languages change in time and how do they influence each other? How does language make us humans what we are? How do we learn language and how do we navigate our multilingual world?

This site is a discussion forum dedicated to exploring the rich diversity of human languages and the peoples who speak them. Comments and criticism from informed readers are always welcome, but this is not a forum for venting political or ideological frustrations. Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic.