Through the Language Glass, Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

time concepts

Times (London)

Tlingit

Torres Straits (Murray Island) expedition

Troy

Tulo (Aborigine poet)

Turkish

Twain, Mark

Tylor, Edward

Tzeltal

ultraviolet light

Unfolding of Language, The (Deutscher)

U.S. Geological Survey

universal dictionaries

universalism

color naming and

grammar and

Uzbek

Vedic poems

verbs

evidentiality and

factive vs. non-factive

gender distinctions and

irregular

– noun fusion

tenses

Vietnamese

“violet”

etymology of

Homer and

primitive peoples and

wavelength, energy, and retina sensitivity to

Virchow, Rudolf

vocabulary

size of

Voltaire

vowels

Wade, Alex

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Warlbiri

Weismann, August

West Greenlandic

“white”

artificial dyes

Berlin and Kay and

Geiger sequence and

Homer and

primitive peoples and

Whitney, William

Whorf, Benjamin Lee

Wien, Wilhelm

Wilusa

Winawer, Jonathan

“wine-dark” sea

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Witthoft, Nathan

women, gender systems and

Woodworth, Robert

word order

Wu, Lisa

!Xoo language

Yana

Yanomamo Indians

“yellow” See also “gray-yellow” distinction; “green-yellow” distinction

Berlin and Kay on

dyes

etymology of

evolution of primate vision and

Geiger’s sequence and

Homer and

Magnus on

primitive peoples and

wavelength, energy, and retina sensitivity to

Young, Thomas

Yukatek

Zulu

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention. Formerly a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two daughters.

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1. A rainbow.