There are very few words that exist across all languages. In Mandarin, for example, there are no words that map well to "yes" and "no" in English. Words like co

There are very few words that exist across all languages. In Mandarin, for example, there are no words that map well to "yes" and "no" in English. Words like colors rarely have precise equivalents between language families. Languages are far more diverse than most Anglophones know, so this is actually a very interesting hypothesis.