Three of a kind: Revealing language`s universal essence
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 12:14
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too.