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About the Welsh language
“The senior language of men in Britain”, according to Tolkien. Welsh is the most widespread language in one of the most scarce language families. A language with Celtic heart, soul, and structure and a minority language that has reversed its … Continue reading
Allusionist 134. Lacuna — The Allusionist
If you were in Brazil during the military dictatorship of 1964-1985, tried to bake a cake from a recipe in the newspaper, and were served with a sorry mess that tasted disgustingly salty, it wasn’t your fault. What you thought … Continue reading
The Decipherment of Maya Script
Why did Maya writing remain undecipherable for so long and how was it finally cracked? Find out how this long enigmatic script was finally deciphered and how centuries of recorded Maya history were unlocked. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ancientamericas Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AncientAmeri… Michael Coe … Continue reading
Allusionist: Eclipse+ — The Allusionist
It’s August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She’s in a bar, standing onstage, performing a karaoke duet of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’… … Continue reading
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
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