[linguistika]

NIIBINISHI GABESHI This summer Bemidji State University is offering a summer camp that targets Ojibwe, a local (and dying) Native American language. In addition to studying the tongue, BSU will be instructing courses on Native American culture and arts, along with providing a genuine college experience for high school students. I will have the privilege of attending the program this summer. After living on (and off) the reservation, I’ve seen the desperate need for Ojibwe education. Bemidji is an awesomely urban city that’s taken impressive steps towards promoting Ojibwe (street signs in Ojibwe, classes on Ojibwe). Furthermore, the full two weeks on campus (including food, full school days, and dormitory space) was free. I’m not even Native American and I received a full ride scholarship. Overall, I firmly support BSU and their actions towards a world that actively involves Native culture as a part of rich, local history. For more information, visit: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/news/news-updates/2013/05/29/bsu-offers-summer-ojibwe-cultural-day-camp http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/departments/languages_ethnic_studies/academic_programs/ojibwe/ http://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2012/05/bemidji-incorporates-ojibwe-city%E2%80%99s-signs-and-daily-life

[doctorsungflower-deactivated201]

Can you imagine if language blogs promo’d themselves the same way grunge blogs do?

☯✞ Follow for more Soft Mutations ✞☯

[linquistics-blog]

So lets add okinawan to list of languages I wanna study, because 10’s not enough 

[linguisten]

10 lists? ;) 

[linquistics-blog]

I don't get it lol

[yesixicana]

“When she thinks to herself in her father’s language, she knows sons and daughters don’t leave their parents’ house until they marry. When she thinks in English, she knows she should’ve been on her own since eighteen.”

— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

Me.

(via hummussexual)

[dirtypixel]

Mirtha Dermisache

"I started writing and the result was something unreadable."

Mirtha Dermisache (1940-2012) from Argentina, practiced asemic writing since the early 1970s. It is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means having no specific semantic content. Asemic writing seeks to make the reader hover in a state between reading and looking.

[jaimetalangue]

El- Writing Greek: do's and don'ts

I love my little Modern Greek grammar my mum had bought me, and it starts with tips about Greek handwriting:

It also talks about punctuation, which basically the same as in English except for the question mark:

? in English

; in Greek (semicolon)

and the semicolon:

; in English

· in Greek (middle dot, or upper dot)

And it gives a poem that I like and know by heart as an example:

So naturally I’d written it down with its English translation (found on the internet), just for the sake of it, and because I love writing (even if I don’t do it very often): Άρνηση, by Γιώργος Σεφέρης

If anyone has any question, suggestion, or correction, let me know :)

[chaka1987-deactivated20230114]

the-inevitable-pinhole-burns should find this interesting

This is a real linguistic oddity - it’s a recording from 1969 of a singer singing in Yola, a language unique to a small part of south-east Ireland that  died out in its entirety by the end of the 19th century. What’s interesting about it is it’s not descended from Irish - it’s derived from English, meaning it’s got a similar relationship to modern English as Scots (not to be confused with Scots Gaelic), though obviously with different sources.

It’s not actually the only English-derived language that grew up in small areas with a long and varied history of colonisation on the east and southeast coasts (since the “sunny south-east” not only has some of the best land on the whole island, it’s easiest to get to from Britain or mainland Europe). Fingalian (spoken around Finglas in Co. Dublin) would have a very similar history and would have died out around about the same time.

It’s interesting to hear it, because aside from English itself (and Scots, which is preserved in stuff like the poetry of Rabbie Burns and was only fairly recently acknowledged as a mutually intelligible language or dialect in its own right, along with the Ulster Scots that’s spoken in some rural areas of Northern Ireland by primarily Protestant descendants of the plantations) all of the English-descended languages have died out. English is just too handy.

[lavidapoliglota]

the sign for ‘lemonade’ in England is the sign for ‘fuck’ in Scotland, that’s how strong BSL dialects can be, ok

[lavidapoliglota]

"oh shit I want to say arrangement but I don’t know whether that sign means sex here???" you thought Spanish regionalisms were bad you are wrong. BSL regionalisms reign supreme

[linquistics-blog]

So apparently there is what some linguists argue is a distinct language called Elfdalian spoken by a few thousand in central Sweden. It retains features of Old Norse no longer found in any other Scandinavian language, even Icelandic. [wiki] [omniglot] 

[brighdethebonsai]

Manx language being spoken in the world’s only Manx school. I’m curious to know what others think, as I think it sounds really similar to Gàidhlig rather than Irish.

cuimhnigh-i-gconai

I thought you might be interested :)

[cuimhnigh-i-gconai]

Manx is excellent. granangael and briongloideach-go-deo would also enjoy this, I think

[majinkeiru-deactivated20140730]

I love this so much! We gotta keep our languages alive at all costs.

[selchieproductions]

I love the fact that they’re keeping Manx alive, but I am vehemently against the orthography of the language because … yuck. No, but these kids are so cute, suas leis na Mannanaich!

[linquistics-blog]

Manx orthography is the only thing stopping me from wanting to study it

[black-australia]

More Queensland schools to offer Aboriginal languages

More Queensland school students can choose to study basic Aboriginal language from 2015 after a rare collection of century-old notebooks of Queensland’s aboriginal language was donated to the State Library of Queensland.

[nighthawkes]

Imagine that alien anthropologists find earth writing but instead of trying to decode the letters, they look at all of the blank space around the letters because of the way that they process information

[dependsoncontext]

The Facebook ‘Like’ button in different languages!

[linquistics-blog]

I got really excited when I saw Cherokee (the fourth one) but I went to facebook and checked the languages and it’s not there…

[kadeart]

My gosh your english is TERRIBLE. Especially in that hiro hamada drawing.

I know my English is bad 

but I’m sure I can read and speak Thai language better than you 

Nobody good at everything :)

[lostsplendor]

First Recorded Instance of F-word in English

"But for English’s first use, we’ve got a dissatisfied 1528 monk."

[tesdefonceoutesgay]

guys guys GUYSSSS

there’s an actual party for Esperanto!!!!

[linquistics-blog]

Apparently Icelandic is a syllable-timed language whereas the rest of the Scandinavian languages are stress-timed... what does this mean?