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

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

- Guy Deutscher

And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big …

- Guy Deutscher