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• Evidentiality Explained: How Grammar Shows How You Know
  Evidentiality is grammar that marks how a speaker knows something, such as by seeing it, inferring it, or hearing it reported, as Turkish and Quechua do.
• Indo-European Languages: The World's Largest Language Family
  Indo-European languages, from English to Hindi, descend from one ancestor spoken thousands of years ago. See the branches, the evidence, and the homeland debate.
• Sign Languages
  Sign languages are complete natural languages with their own grammars — how they arise, how they differ from spoken languages, and why they matter to linguistics.
• Metaphor
  How one thing is spoken of in terms of another: the mechanics of metaphor, its varieties, and its role in thought and science.