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Endonyms are the names countries call themselves in their own language(s), while exonyms are the names foreign languages call them.

The Austronesian language family is absolutely vast, including over 1200 languages; for comparison Europe has only around 200, and the whole Indo-European family adds up to around 450.

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A quick summary of the evolutionary mistake that means you need to eat oranges, but almost every other animal doesn’t.

The words ‘avocado’, ‘guacamole’, and ‘mole’ (the Mexican sauce) all come to use from Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire, via Spanish.

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Mum, mummy, mam, mammy, ma, maw, or mom?

I made another silly linguistics comic that only true linguistics nerds will fully appreciate: “Linguémon: Linguistical Monsters!”

Remember, nothing is scarier than impending environmental destruction!