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Can we learn to talk to sperm whales?
Animals are communicating — but what are they saying? And can we talk back? Marine biologist David Gruber introduces Project CETI: a team of scientists, linguists and AI specialists hoping to decode sperm whale language. Using noninvasive robots and a … Continue reading
About the Navajo language
Today we are travelling to the wild west, to the borderless lands of North America. We’re going to explore the language of the people who lived here long before Europeans arrived – Navajo, a language of incredible beauty and complexity. … Continue reading
Russlandsfarerne 19: The Ket Language – Navajo’s Siberian Cousin?
Professor Edward Vajda tells us about the Kets and their languages. The Ket people live in the middle of Siberia. Despite their isolation, their language might be related to some Native American languages such as Navajo. Русскоязычная версия интервью (The … Continue reading
Language Connection Between Asia and the Americas? — The Dené-Yeniseian Language Family Explained
This is literally a reading of an essay I wrote in 2018 for college, discussing the most probable linguistic connection between the Americas and the Old World, thus making it a Video Essay. Works Cited Flegontov, Pavel, et al. … Continue reading
Five words that don’t mean what you think they do | The Conversation
Simon Horobin Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford How words are used change over time and insisting that their original meaning be adhered to is pretty silly. Articles of this kind usually assert that a word’s … Continue reading
UC Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders | Hyperallergic
Among the wax cylinders in UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California. Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau … Continue reading
How Similar Are Québec French and Metropolitan French?
“How similar are the French varieties of France and Québec?” That is the question! And in the video I try to answer it. ** For lots of great French lessons for students of all levels, visit FrenchPod101: https://langfocus.com/frenchpod. (Full disclosure: … Continue reading
La langue française: The French Language
This video is all about the French language, its history, and features. Are you learning French? Visit FrenchPod101: https://langfocus.com/frenchpod. (Note: if you sign up for a premium account, Langfocus receives a small referral fee.) Special thanks to Thomas Gabiache for … Continue reading
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
This famous puzzle illuminates a deep controversy over what we mean by “probability,” and how to reason when observer selection effects are in play.
Old Norse Influence on Northern English
Árni Leifsson and Andrew R (and possibly others) have pointed out that in the word ‘gymbr,’ the /-r/ ending is actually part of the stem! Seems I need to brush up on ON morphology a bit. However, I still don’t … Continue reading
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