Here's Episode 5 of A Language I Love Is... and for this episode, Dr Sāmapriẏa Basu guides us into the Caucasus, the "mountain of tongues", a region rich in languages and language families. Our way in is via the modern language of Ossetian, an Indo-European relative marooned by history from the rest of its family.

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Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Dr. Sāmapriẏa Basu

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: Willow Marler

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