“Language is a window into
“Language is a window into the brain and a window into culture. Studying the distribution of the world’s languages lets us look into prehistory and study human movement and contact.” I’m interested in...
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“Once a language is silent, it’s gone forever”. It may be dead and no longer evolves like a living language does, but it need not be forgotten. There are many dead languages which are preserved for all...
View ArticleI’m more than a little
I’m more than a little disappointed that the author did not manage to make a stronger case for the preservation of languages, where there is so clearly a very strong case to be made. If we lose these...
View ArticleIt is a remarkable fact that
It is a remarkable fact that of the tens of thousands of languages in the world only a few hundred have been comprehensively studied yet some monolingual linguists use e.g. English as the basis for...
View ArticleI remember well the old High
I remember well the old High School ditty: Latin is a language Dead as dead can be It killed the ancient Romans And now it’s killing me! Many years ago I discussed with an Aboriginal Elder the “swans...
View Articlepan.sapiens Actually, mass
pan.sapiens Actually, mass extinctions, although rare, are ‘normal’ and occurred long before humans appeared. Good luck to all those linguists and etymologists who want to preserve languages,...
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