What Is the Hardest Language in the World to Lipread?
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Atlas Obscura
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Dan Nosowitz
For linguists, it is a tremendously controversial and fluid topic of study. What are lipreaders actually looking at? Just how accurate is the understanding of speech on the basis of visual cues alone? What language, of the 6,000-plus distinct tongues in the world, is the hardest to lipread?
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