Babel No More (49 page)

Gunnemark, Dan,
105

Gunnemark, Erik,
91
–93,
92,
99
–101,
102
n,
105
,
107
,
137
,
140
,
215
,
226
,
227

“Gypsy”
language,
43

Hale, Ezra,
81

Hale, Ken,
80
–83,
141
,
169
,
212
,
239
,
282

hallucinations,
49
–50,
280

Harvard University,
46
,
75
,
86
,
149
–50,
162
,
279

HB (patient),
139

Hebrew language,
31
,
76
,
150
,
161
,
207

Biblical,
4

Rabbinic,
4
,
43

study of,
33
,
101
,
132
, 1490

Hellenic language family,
44
,
218

Hentig, Werner Otto von,
151
–53,
286

Hermans, Eugeen,
247
–48,
251
,
253
–54,
256

Herning, Derick,
255
–58,
262

Heuvelmans, Bernard,
248
–49

Hickok, Gregory,
158
,
287

Hindi language,
9
,
14
,
20
,
26
,
111
,
119
n,
120
,
127
,
129
–31,
188
–89,
191
–94,
197
–99,
203
,
211
,
231

Hindu, The,
200
–201

Hindustani language,
4
,
42
,
43
,
47
,
75

Hippo Family Club,
86
–89,
260

official seven languages of,
87
n

historical archives,
13
,
17
,
27
–32

Hmong language,
123

Hoffmann, Dustin,
229

Hondurans,
8

How I Learn Languages
(Lomb),
101
,
102
–3,
293

Hudson, Dick,
67
–73,
91
,
94
,
159
,
168
n,
209
,
234

Hungarian language,
4
,
5
,
35
,
39
,
43
,
104

Hungary,
101
,
104

Hurro-Urartian language family,
44
n

hyperlexia,
162

hyperpolyglots,
12
–20,
28
,
46
–47

characteristics of,
12
–13,
14
–15,
34
,
83
,
209
–10,
214
–30

as cryptids (out of time, out of place, out of scale),
15
,
169

definition of,
12

as freaks and geeks,
101
n,
106
,
212
,
228

gender and,
101
n,
228
–29,
230

lack of modern scientific literature on,
73

language-learning lessons of,
82
–83,
102
–3,
111
,
114
,
133
–36,
260
–65

legends and myths about,
13
,
79
n,
81
–82,
126
,
189
,
220
–21,
248
,
249

mental impairment and,
69
,
94
–99

memoirs of,
13
,
59
,
86
,
170

modern,
92
,
100
–105,
218
,
247
–58

neural tribe theory of,
15
,
213
,
214
–16,
229
,
234
,
239
,
242
–43,
247
,
265

newspaper account of,
78

skepticism about,
6
,
13
,
14
,
25
,
42
,
61
–62,
67
,
101
,
105
,
108
–10

study of,
13
–19,
67
–143

surveys of,
13
,
56
,
217
–26,
217,
219
,
274
–76

testing of,
6
,
16
–17,
109
–10

unusual neurological resources of,
14
,
15
,
62
,
94
,
98
,
231
–35,
240
–41,
260

uses of languages by,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
50
,
62
, 812–16

Icelandic language,
42
,
75

Old,
119

idiomatic expressions,
53

Illyrian
language,
43

India,
8
,
14
,
42
,
107
n,
149
,
187
–89

caste system in,
197
,
201
–2

multiple languages of,
5
,
9
,
188
–89,
191
–205,
207
–9,
290

Indian Army,
47
n

Indo-Aryan languages,
196

Indo-European languages,
34
,
196

Indo-Iranian language family,
44
n

intelligence quotient (IQ),
94
,
162
–63,
216
,
217

performance vs. verbal,
163

testing of,
214

Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR),
223

intermarriage,
21

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO),
54
–55

Internet,
8

fraudulent email scams (419s) on,
10

language learning on,
107
,
168
,
265

translations on,
10
,
18

see also
Skype; Twitter; YouTube

iPods,
133

Iran,
85
n,
183

Iraq,
124

Irish language,
42
,
80

Israel,
108
,
161
,
195
,
284

Italian language,
10
,
14
,
17
–18,
28
–30,
31
,
35
,
43
,
50
,
59
,
130

Latin basis of,
17

Italy,
3
,
16
,
46

1860 establishment of republic in,
35