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Can a Comma Solve a Crime? — The Dial
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/forensic-linguists-solve-crimes113
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient-alphabet-discovered-syria/Archive link: https://archive.ph/cIz4A
It's dated to be from around 2400 BCE. The article doesn't clarify if it's a true alphabet or an abjad, but either way it's interesting.
EDIT: see also https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-oldest-alphabet-discovered/ for a less pop-linguistics narrative of the same discovery.
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Most of Australia’s First Nations languages don’t have gendered pronouns. Here’s why
https://theconversation.com/most-of-australias-first-nations-languages-dont-have-gendered-pronouns-heres-why-23428913
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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/should-a-country-speak-a-single-language37
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People around world associate rolled R with a jagged line, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/20/people-around-world-associate-rolled-r-jagged-line-linguistics-bouba-kiki9
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Personal datives | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/personal-dativesNative English speakers, how do you use personal datives? Today I came across an interesting text on the phenomenon here. Here are some examples from the text: ... read full post
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The 1600s Were a Watershed for Swear Words | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/explicit-content15
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Sub-Indo-European Europe [open-access PDF]
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111337920The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to have dramatically altered Europe’s linguistic landscape. Many of the preexisting languages are assumed to have been lost, as Indo-European languages, including Greek, Latin, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Armenian, dominate in much of Western Eurasia from historical times. To elucidate the linguistic encounters resulting from the Indo-Europeanization process, this volume evaluates the lexical evidence for prehistoric language contact in multiple Indo-European subgroups, at the same time taking a critical stance to approaches that have been applied to this problem in the past. ... read full post
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Term for modified aphorisms?
I have a question for folks here, mainly around English linguistics but would love to hear of parallels in other languages. If you're not big on cats, just skip the next paragraph, which I've include for the context to be clear and show why I have provided the picture. ... read full post
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Five common English words we don't know the origins of—including 'boy' and 'dog'
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-common-english-words-dont-boy.html27
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Babbling scouse youngster shows babies can have accents, say scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/05/babbling-scouse-youngster-shows-babies-can-have-accents-say-scientistscross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/14265279 ... read full post
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Was there ever an African romance language?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHW-1ASyFLs84
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2,500-year-old slate containing drawings of battle scenes and paleo-alphabet discovered in Spain
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2500-year-old-slate-containing-drawings-of-battle-scenes-and-paleo-alphabet-discovered-in-spainI'm sharing this here mostly due to the alphabet. The relevant region (Tartessos) would be roughly what's today the western parts of Andalucia, plus the Algarve. ... read full post
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Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/magazine/native-language-loss.html8
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Baudolino: Lying About the Future Produces History - Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, speaks about his latest book, Baudolino, including translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYMCy8gEhog85
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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fluid_speech.png
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500 ... read full post
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How 'Not' Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/language-adjectives-neuroscience-26207/14
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Why Romanian Isn't Like Other Languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ME_vcqWeJs0
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First languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberia
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-languages-north-america-language-groups.html58
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cli-etymology
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Is English just badly pronounced French?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q14
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New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages
https://archive.is/ZxVFi38
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