Together with Caucasus scholar Yakov Testelc, we explore the diversity and theories of the relationship of Caucasian languages, read an Avar haiku and a Georgian poem, and discuss universal grammar and artificial intelligence.

00:00 Welcome
02:11 The Gunzibi and Ginukh Languages
09:50 The Beginning of Interest in the Caucasus
14:54 A Mountain of Languages
18:50 Hypotheses of Linguistic Relationships
24:54 Russian in Dagestan
26:22 Exonyms
28:45 Literary Tradition
32:10 Georgian and Other Kartvelian Languages
36:34 Russian in Dagestan (continued)
40:30 What is a Native Speaker?
48:13 Personal Scientific Discoveries
56:55 Atoms of Language Generativism

A popular science linguistics podcast about how language can't be broken. Hosted by Igor Isaev and Dmitry Kolomatsky, linguists at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Video cover design: Igor Isaev
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