RIKEN researchers found Japanese infants stop hearing foreign sound sequences by 14 months, tuning their ears to native rules before learning words or grammar.
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Belarus's 2009 census found those calling Belarusian their native language fell from almost 74 percent to 53 percent, with only 23 percent speaking it at home.
Vengerian is the Slavic name for Hungarian, a Uralic outlier with 18 cases, vowel harmony and a focus position that machine translation still cannot handle.