Guy Deutscher Professions : Linguist Born : 1969 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Guy Deutscher Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. Guy Deutscher invention mankind language And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material). Guy Deutscher vegetables animal two As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue. Guy Deutscher sound blue may Similar Authors Ben Zimmer linguist David Graddol linguist Harlan Lane linguist George Lakoff linguist Friedrich Muller linguist Noam Chomsky linguist All Authors
