The Plaice to Know

Episode

278: No Such Thing As A Herring-Okapi Hybrid

2019-07-19 Β· 2 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. HokkaidoOne-offJapan

    Ainu is spoken by about 10 people in Hokkaido, Japan. Hindi is the most normal language, and that's spoken by, what, nearly a billion people.

    mentioned at 00:20:09 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. PapuaOne-offIndonesia

    The Yipno language in Papua is where everything is conceived directionally in terms of uphill and downhill. If you're talking about where the door is, you'll say, oh, it's just uphill, or if I was saying, whereabouts is…

    mentioned at 00:21:45 Β· See it on the map β†’

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