Linguistic Louvata

Mind is a Moss, general account is louvatacelt

[garadinervi]

Vladimir Ja. Propp, (1928), Morphology of the Folktale, First Edition Translated by Laurence Scott with an Introduction by Svatava Pírková-Jakobson, Second Edition Revised and Edited with a Preface by Louis A. Wagner, New Introduction by Alan Dundes, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2009, p. 47

[garadinervi]

Vladimir Ja. Propp, (1928), Morphology of the Folktale, First Edition Translated by Laurence Scott with an Introduction by Svatava Pírková-Jakobson, Second Edition Revised and Edited with a Preface by Louis A. Wagner, New Introduction by Alan Dundes, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2009, pp. 93-94

[louvata]

Finds at a local thrift

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[uququ]

i want to marry Wiktionary

[uququ]

CRUEL

[uququ]

the parallel w/ germanic bear is interesting but it must be said that "brown one" is vastly inferior to "cutie pie"

[louvata]

[ayeforscotland]

Gaidhlig and Scots become official languages in Scotland today with the Scottish Languages Act coming into force after it was voted on back in June.

Key parts of the legislation includes the right for parents to request Gaelic schools for their local area, and will help with standardisation of language teaching across the board.

Good signs for the future. In the future would be very interested to see parents (and everyone else) getting access to the same learning materials so they can learn alongside their kids.

[shofarsogood]

Congratulations, Scotland!!!

[allthingslinguistic]

The Proto-Algonquian Dictionary is now online! 

Here, we can see the reconstructed common word for “shoe” and its descendants in modern Algonquian languages (themselves the origins of English “moccasin”). 

Proto-Indo-European gets a lot of attention as a proto-language, but there are other reconstructed ancestor languages in other areas of the world. Over 4000 vocabulary items have been reconstructed for Proto-Algonquian and it’s great to see the classic dictionary that this is based on now publically searchable. 

It’s not the only Proto-Algonquian resource though, so if you can’t find something there, it’s worth trying other papers and books as well (Goddard and Costa in particular have written a lot about Proto-Algonquian). Many modern Algonquian language dictionaries and recordings are available online, such as the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal and the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas. 

[weaponwifer]

my forced yassification project will include the promotion of hyperpolari (mixed language between Polari and Kuchean) as the national language of the UK (target by 2050)

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Damn, missed it again

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Happy Bog Day!

[quasistarjudgement]

Happy Bog Day everyone!!!

[ashi-sewehitsanethe]

As an English speaker, I know Bifrost looks like “bi-frost”, but as a language nerd, I know it’s actually “bif-rost”, and the correct pronunciation is “beef roast”.

[charl0ttan]

having a trio bestfriendgroup is probably peak i think. minimum plurality of other people. the sheer levels of camaraderie at play. its almost perverse

[weaponwifer]

Paucality

[official-linguistics-post]

Two new open-access books on inclusion and decolonization in linguistics!

Inclusion in Linguistics, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, Mary Bucholtz (Eds.) (2024), Oxford University Press

Full-text PDF Companion website

Decolonizing Linguistics, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, Mary Bucholtz (Eds.) (2024), Oxford University Press

Full-text PDF Companion website

Per Anne H. Charity Hudley, "we strongly encourage readers to engage with [the books] as a pair. The volumes and the models of decolonized and inclusive research, teaching, advocacy, and action that they present are informed by each other." (Source)

They also ask: "In support of publication justice, please share the links rather than the PDF files so that our authors get the download documentation and credit for their work that they deserve." (Source)

Go forth and be educated!

[ishparpuaqib-deactivated2026020]

so, i've witnessed multiple instances of croatian children (approx. in the 7 - 15 age range, so like, generation alpha + younger zoomers) conversing amongst each other in english instead of croatian. the last time was at my local gas station, where i heard two girls discuss what chocolate bars they should buy in (grammatically correct but clearly accented) english before switching to (flawless) croatian while paying for their chocolate

anyone i've tried to talk abt this irl uniformly reacted with horror, all of them seemingly convinced english is eventually going to entirely displace croatian as a native language—but i'm not really sure that's what's going on. knowledge of english is a really new phenomenon in croatia (and the rest of former yugoslavia). really new—mastery of the language begins w zoomers, more or less. you shouldn't expect any croat over the age of 25 to speak english fluently, and any over the age of 35 to speak english at all. (millennials + younger gen xers are nominally fluent in german; their parents are nominally fluent in russian, and their parents are nominally fluent in german, again). it is perfectly reasonable for a young croat to assume nobody older than them—say, a gas station clerk, or the noisy old fart standing behind them in the queue—is going to be privy to the content of their conversation if they converse in english. this leads me to think these kids are using english as an adult-exclusive cipher. which is pretty fucking cool, actually, even though i imagine it's not really the sort of thing one should expect to have a long shelf life, esp. as older zoomers reach child-rearing age

[ukfrislandembassy]

I've seen it noted that in some Papuan communities researchers decades ago were saying things like 'the younger generations only really speak in Tok Pisin and so the language is likely in danger of dying out in the next few decades', and then researchers returning to field sites more recently report the exact same sociolinguistic distribution. I've seen it suggested that actually what's happening is that the younger generations are actually pretty fluent in the community language, but only switch to actually using it once they reach maturity, a phenomenon that Anderbeck (2015) terms 'Adult Acquisition', and Saad, Arnold & Peddie (Accepted) term 'Late Vernacular Production'. It's obiouvsly not the case that all the small languages of Papua have this kind of dynamic going on,

Anderbeck, Karl. 2015. Portraits of language vitality in the languages of Indonesia. In I. Wayan Arka, Ni Luh Nyoman Seri Malini, Ida Ayu Made Puspani (eds.), Language documentation and cultural practices in the Austronesian world, Papers from ICAL 12 (A–PL 019) 4:19–47. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Saad, G., Arnold, L., & Peddie, E. (Accepted/In press). Late Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Glossa Contact.

[wordarttmn]

Outcomes of latin J/soft G in romance languages

an approximate map

conservation of g: brown j red dʒ orange ʒ yellow z light green dz dark green ð olive green tʃ teal ʃ light blue x dark blue ts purple ɟ pink Ø black