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Episodes
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#5170: How Many Languages Sit in the Middle?Roughly 250 of the world's 7,000 languages have 100,000+ speakers. What's it like living in one of them?Main topic -
#5227: Who Decides What Hebrew Words Mean?Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language can coin words the state must use — but it can't make anyone say them. Why 10 million speakers might be the... -
#5172: Who Decides When a Dialect Becomes a Language?Languages fork like codebases — and the merge button doesn't exist. Who actually decides when a dialect becomes its own language?