For example: some languages do not have a written form, there's no word in Thai for making love or having sex*, Navajo contains no profanity, many Asian languages have far more family-based and class-based honorifics than do Western and European languages, some written languages do not have uppercase and lowercase options for their letters or characters, various languages have very few verb tenses while other languages have several of them, etc.
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Aboriginal languages have up to 32 words to describe clouds relative to time of day in the sky.
Aboriginal names reveal pedigrees which show line of descent via the syllables used to ensure the prevention of incest.
English has more words for colours than any other language, has the largest vocabulary of all languages and the most flexible syntax.
Mandarin, Cantonese and several other Far Eastern languages have five "tones," long rising, short rising, flat, short falling, and long falling, which change the meaning even though the word itself is the same combination of consonants and vowels. The two languages are written with the same characters for their words, but pronounce them so differently that speakers of one must know the verbal form or cannot understand one another.
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