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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.

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What's the most universal utterance in languages across the globe?

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Huh? Correct! Huh? That's right. HUH? Exactly.

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Because a new study finds that everybody around the world does indeed say "huh?"

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The finding is the journal PLOS One.

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The researchers were exploring linguistic tools people use to assure fluid communication.

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In this case, they were looking for an interjection that signals that a listener missed something, and prompts the speaker to repeat or rephrase the original statement.

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In other words, something that works like the English word "Huh?"

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So they eavesdropped on nearly 200 conversations in 10 different tongues, from Italian to Icelandic.

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And they found that, in language after language, a word that sounds a lot like "huh?" gets the job done.

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For example, (international huhs).

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It's short and sweet so it's likely to stop the speaker before the listener gets too lost.

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And it sounds like a question, so it warrants a response.

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The sound appears not to be innate.

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Babies don't use it before they say mama.

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But most five-year-olds are masters of "huh?"

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No matter where they come from.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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