What is the strangest language in the world? Many linguists believe that all languages share certain universal rules and features. They believe that humans have innate or natural grammar that we are born with. However, there is a language from South America which is so strange and peculiar that it challenges this theory! Let’s discuss it in this episode of Thinking in English!

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Vocabulary List

Linguist (n) - someone who studies the structure and development of language

He is a well known linguist and expert on South American languages

Universal (adj) - existing everywhere or involving everyone

Love and relationships will always be a topic of universal interest

blank canvas (n) - someone, or something, without a fixed character and that can develop in different ways

A newborn baby is a blank canvas who can learn any language

Innate (adj) - an innate quality or ability is one that you were born with, not one you have learned

James has innate goodness

Grammatical (adj) - obeying the rules of grammar

It’s not grammatical to say ‘Me and my friends went to the cinema’

Isolate (n) - a person or thing that has been or become isolated

Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

Finite (adj) - having a limit or end

The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money

Abstract (adj) - existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object

Truth and beauty are abstract concepts

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