# Language / 7,000 voices

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:36.814Z
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## Summary

An atlas of the human capacity to mean — its sounds, its scripts, its families, its futures. Key sections include: Language / 7,000 voices; A creature that talks; A few trunks , a thousand branches; From a single tongue , half the world; The phoneme & its variations; From picture to letter; The shapes of writing; Who eats whom , in what order; What every language shares; How English became English.

## Slide Outline

1. Language / 7,000 voices
2. A creature that talks
3. A few trunks , a thousand branches
4. From a single tongue , half the world
5. The phoneme & its variations
6. From picture to letter
7. The shapes of writing
8. Who eats whom , in what order
9. What every language shares
10. How English became English
11. One dies every two weeks
12. Translation, preservation , & the rise of English
13. Sources & rabbit holes

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