BUDAPEST—Dogs can distinguish between languages, researchers in Hungary found, after playing excerpts from the story “The Little Prince” in Spanish and Hungarian to a group of 18 canines and examining how their brains reacted. The study was led by Laura V. Cuaya at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, who moved to the city from Mexico a few years ago, bringing her dog Kun-kun with her. “I wondered whether Kun-kun noticed that people in Budapest spoke a different language, Hungarian,” she said. “(In the research) we found for the first time that a non-human brain can distinguish (between) languages.” In their lives with humans, dogs pick up on the auditory patterns of the language they are exposed to, said Raul Hernandez-Perez, co-author of the study. During the experiment, Kun-kun and others were trained to lie down motionless in a brain scanner for several minutes. All the dogs had heard only one …