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Look at words like "please," "thank you," "you're welcome" in other languages.
So we've been studying the babies using a technique that we're using all over the world and the sounds of all languages.
They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using, and that's remarkable because you and I can't do that.
We can discriminate the sounds of our own language, but not those of foreign languages.
And she's listening to various languages in the earphones that are in her ears.
And we want to learn other languages.
We want to know English and French and perhaps Chinese, and we're good at languages."
(Singing in various languages) Hampart-zoum Dirouhi Di questa Terra Naprasno Conscience et (Barks) (Singing) Arise Tsk, tsk, tsk.
But sadly, today, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate.
They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages.
Do we really want to end up with 600 languages and the main one being English, or Chinese?
I have learned from Wikipedia that, starting with that humble beginning, PLATO established forums, message boards, online testing, email, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing and multiple-player games.
They are wiping out languages.
And Europe, which is right now in the middle of the day, is going really strong with a whole wide variety of languages.
If you look at a map of India today, you'll see that most of the languages spoken in North India belong to the Indo-European language family.
And the proponents of this theory point to that small pocket of Dravidian-speaking people in the North, actually near Afghanistan, and they say that perhaps, sometime in the past, Dravidian languages were spoken all over India and that this suggests that the Indus civilization is perhaps also Dravidian.
Languages contain patterns.
Well linguistic scripts can actually encode multiple languages.
This suggests that the same script, the Indus script, could be used to write different languages.
In Dravidian languages, the word for fish is "meen" which happens to sound just like the word for star.
I ran a center at Harvard from 2008 to 2010, and there were people like Michael Semple there who speak Afghan languages fluently, who've traveled to almost every district in the country.
Languages are genes talking, getting things that they want.
And this leads to the wonderful irony that our languages exist to prevent us from communicating.
As we spread out around the world, we developed thousands of different languages.
Currently, there are about seven or 8,000 different languages spoken on Earth.
As we diverge, our languages are naturally going to diverge.
But the real puzzle and irony is that the greatest density of different languages on Earth is found where people are most tightly packed together.
If we go to the island of Papua New Guinea, we can find about 800 to 1,000 distinct human languages, different human languages, spoken on that island alone.
And we know this because when we study different language groups and associate them with their cultures, we see that different languages slow the flow of ideas between groups.
Because these different languages impose a barrier, as we've just seen, to the transfer of goods and ideas and technologies and wisdom.
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