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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.

archive.org/details/Xerox_Cogn

The manual of the system:

researchgate.net/profile/John-

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

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)