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Tullio De Mauro, linguist and former Minister of Public Education, tells in a (beautiful!) speech what the relationship is that we have with words, and how we take possession of language. Every minute we elaborate a hundred or more words, and every day we elaborate at least a hundred thousand. Our relationship with our mother tongue begins when we are only forty-eight hours old... but how do language and words arise? Forms of language belong to all living beings, including unicellular organisms.