Do Inuit languages really have many words for snow? The most interesting finds from our study of 616 languages
By Charles Kemp, Professor, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Ekaterina Vylomova, Lecturer, Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Temuulen Khishigsuren, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
Terry Regier, Professor, Language and Cognition Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025