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November 2017 by TEDWomen 2017<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world\u2014and they all have different sounds, vocabularies, and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language\u2014from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian\u2014that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. \u201cThe beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,\u201d Boroditsky says. \u201cHuman minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more at ted.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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