Hello from Benin! #HelloWorld #Benin #language #linguistics

The best piece of news for today. #linguistics
https://dannybate.com/2025/03/16/a-language-i-love-is-returns-for-series-3/#like-8929

The sound of "scream" in Belarusian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Botswana! #HelloWorld #Botswana #language #linguistics

The Diplomat: Tibetan Language, Epic, and the Bards Safeguarding Heritage. “Set against the background of global pressures of homogenization and tightening of the spaces for acceptable public expression in the Xi Jinping era, this support for Tibetan heritage seems particularly important. Recently, government promotion of the concept ‘minzu gongtongti yishi 民族?

?同体意识’ – […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/16/the-diplomat-tibetan-language-epic-and-the-bards-safeguarding-heritage/

Grammar Writer's Workbench is a graphical platform in Interlisp for linguistic and algorithmic research within the Lexical Functional Grammar theoretical framework. In this 1982 videotape its co-creator Ron Kaplan demonstrates using the system to parse and analyze English sentences.

https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Cognitive_Instructional_Systems_Ron_Kaplan_1982-12

The manual of the system:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Maxwell-7/publication/2760068_Grammar_Writer's_Workbench/links/0c96052405e97928e9000000/Grammar-Writers-Workbench.pdf

We are working to make Grammar Writer's Workbench available again on Medley.

The sound of "pausing or thinking" in Estonian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Oman! #HelloWorld #Oman #language #linguistics

The sound of "bee buzzing" in Estonian!
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Hello from Latvia! #HelloWorld #Latvia #language #linguistics

The sound of "belching" in Finnish!
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"over and under" sounds right to me but "under and over" sounds wrong. I'd expect them to be swappable. ¿Is this me or is this a thing?

#linguistics #language #English #EnglishAsSheIsSpoke @languagelovers

The sound of "scream" in Latvian!
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Hello from Germany! #HelloWorld #Germany #language #linguistics

Print exposure impacts grammatical knowledge more than years of schooling. Tan Arda Gedik examines how literacy is a stronger predictor of linguistic abilities than formal education in Turkish speakers. Conventional metrics may not apply universally.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N2.ID785
#linguistics #literacy #education

The sound of "hushing" in Czech!
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So I'm learning about a little known extinct Creole language called Sabir AKA the original Lingua Franca, which was spoken by sailors/merchants across the Mediterranean between the 15th and 19th century. The language combined Italian, Occitan, French, Arabic and Turkish. Sadly we don't have many written sources about it, and it likely had various dialects.
E mi pensar star honta Sabir star lingua perso (And I think it's a shame Sabir is a lost language) #Linguistics… (1/2)

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

'Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American'

#society #US #language #EndangeredLanguages #linguistics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english

Hello from South Korea! #HelloWorld #SouthKorea #language #linguistics

The sound of "kiss" in Swedish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps