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flag MIT study reveals brains process invented languages like Esperanto and Klingon similarly to English.

flag A new MIT study shows that the brain processes invented languages like Esperanto and Klingon similarly to natural languages like English. flag Using fMRI scans, researchers found that the same brain regions activate for both invented and natural languages in fluent speakers. flag This suggests that the ability to express certain meanings, rather than the language's age or number of speakers, is key to engaging the brain's language-processing system.

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