A primary school principal in Izmir has recorded 4,500 Romani words from three neighbourhoods, building the first Turkish-Romany dictionary from scratch.
Posts with tag.: Linguistic
Rio state has put eight linguists on a public phone line to answer questions on accents, syntax and agreement. The anxiety behind the service is the real story.
African languages embody the cultural heritage, diversity, and identity of the continent
Stephen Pax Leonard will live a year with the Inughuit to record Inuktun, an undocumented language with about 1,000 speakers and a thinning sheet of ice.
A column of numbers found under adobe rubble near Trujillo records a Peruvian language that has been extinct for centuries. One page against a very long silence.
Leeds researcher Serge Sharoff has £700,000 from the European Commission to build term banks that could reshape machine translation and language teaching alike.
A list of seven languages hanging on by a thread is entertaining, but the real predictors of language death are duller and far more reliable than speaker counts.
The Portuguese language is a treasure trove of history, culture, and literary brilliance. Its wide-ranging influences, global reach, and melodious phonetics make it a language worth exploring
Vienna linguist Nikolaus Ritt argues sounds and words are selfish replicators that use speakers to copy themselves, turning language change into Darwinian evolution.
Humpty Dumpty in English, Indonesian, Russian and Turkish shows what each grammar forces speakers to decide, and what the new research on linguistic relativity found.
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Linguists in Arunachal Pradesh set out to record an Aka dialect and found Koro instead, a distinct language with about 1,000 speakers and no written record.
Film-maker Heather Quinlan is recording New York's disappearing accents in If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary built on her grandfathers' voices.