Linguistics

2,500-year-old slate containing drawings of battle scenes and paleo-alphabet discovered in Spain ( www.livescience.com )

I'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....

Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? ( www.nytimes.com )

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech ( imgs.xkcd.com )

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15125500...

Baudolino: Lying About the Future Produces History - Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, speaks about his latest book, Baudolino, including translation ( www.youtube.com )

How 'Not' Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives - Neuroscience News ( neurosciencenews.com )

Why Romanian Isn't Like Other Languages ( www.youtube.com )

sand ( packaged-media.redd.it )

First languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberia ( phys.org )

cli-etymology ( mander.xyz )

Is English just badly pronounced French? ( www.youtube.com )

New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages ( www.scientificamerican.com )

Irish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )

How climate change is altering Sami language ( www.bbc.com )

Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent ( www.bbc.com )

they were taking part in an unusual experiment, which involved tracking their own voices over time. This was done by making 10-minute recordings every few weeks. They would sit in front of a microphone and repeat the same 29 words as they appeared on a computer screen. Food. Coffee. Hid. Airflow....

The End of the Slavic Linguistic Unity (in French, but with English subtitles) ( www.youtube.com )

How likely are chance resemblances between languages? ( www.zompist.com )

Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviour ( www.nature.com )

Linguistic Coincidences ( lemmy.sdf.org )

This is not bad

Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity ( bigthink.com )

Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness ( www.theguardian.com )

The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought ( www.nature.com )

A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley | Antiquity | Cambridge Core ( www.cambridge.org )

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide ( ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com )

The English words “wheel” and “rickshaw” are extraordinary cognates ( lemmy.sdf.org )

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns ( aschmann.net )