Monday 28 April 2014

Xenolalia : 100 words

When Rehaan was three, he picked up hindi and urdu words. His family was amazed at his learning speed. As years passed by, he kept on speaking some incomprehensible words. Nobody in village understood what he spoke. The news spread like wildfire. Media got involved and it was found that he knew twelve languages at the age of ten. The world had found a new child prodigy. His fame grew wide and far. When questioned about how he knew so many languages, little Rehaan had no answers. Little did the world know that he remembered languages from his previous births.  



P.S. – Xenolalia is the ability to speak in a foreign language which a person has not learned nor been exposed to.  

This post is written as a part of April A to Z Challenge 2014 under Non-Themed category. I am doing two posts for this Challenge and Themed posts can be found here.



24 comments:

  1. Yes some times children remember incidents from their previous birth. Same with languages.

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  2. wow...I never knew of it!! Lovely take...

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  3. That's amazing. Twelve languages??? Excellent choice for X Day. Btw, I love your name!

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  4. Xenolalia- gosh . thats a new word to me
    interesting one Jyotsna

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  5. Awesome short story. Thanks for sharing yet another word I was completely unfamiliar with but something I have tried with Arabic and various Aboriginal languages with very little success, LOL. Visiting from the A to Z challenge

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    1. Thanks a lot Stephanie. Glad you liked this :)

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  6. Interesting and awesome story! I never heard of that word before. ♥

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  7. That's an interesting twist towards the end ... quite unexpected, but who knows, it may happen in real :-)

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  8. quite an interesting choice for X :)

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  9. A variety, this one ! Previous births , wow !

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  10. A powerful story, Jyotsna:)

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