Orang Asli voices may go silent as languages face extinction
SPECIAL REPORT | As many as six smaller aboriginal groups in the peninsula risk linguistic extinction due to assimilation.
Malay loanwords in Teochew language – The Teochew Store 潮舖
Spoken Teochew is both ancient and at the same time evolving, just like any other "live" languages. The Teochews settled in the Malay-speaking world covering Singapore, Malaysia and Indon...
Africa’s linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism
Our recent study provides new empirical evidence of the geographic bias in multilingualism research published in high-impact scientific journals. We show that the regions most commonly studied are not particularly multilingual. The reverse is also true: the most multilingual regions are massively understudied in research on multilingualism
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language - Nautilus
The confounding consistency of color categories.
‘Swamping’, ‘Cockroaches’, ‘Invasion’: How Language Shapes our View of Migration – Byline Times
Dan Clayton looks at a rising tide of martial, dehumanising and manipulative metaphors over asylum seekers and migrants in the UK
It Was John Glenn Who Popularized the Word “Glitch” | Air & Space Magazine| Smithsonian Magazine
And he got it from an unlikely, although unknown, source.
Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans | The Brink | Boston University
A note in Ajami, a modified Arabic script, from Fallou Ngom's late father opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
Gullah Geechee enters the academy - Subtitle
There's a new language class on offer at Harvard. Gullah Geechee is a creole language developed by enslaved Africans and still spoken today. As far as anyone knows, it's the first time it's been taught anywhere. Sunn M'Cheaux — native speaker turned Harvard instructor — tells his story and the story of Gullah Geechee, a language that is as African as it is American.
'Just Deserts' or 'Just Desserts'? | Merriam-Webster
The usage advice you deserve
fleur-flour-flah and ‘good’ english – More of A Comment
it’s as much a historical artifact as the rhotic American accents probably resemble older forms of British accents, or the American habit to NOT pronounce the h in ‘herb’ unlike modern British (and that was, again, another French thing). It’s not wrong, and if monolinguals tell us otherwise, then they’re just being jerks and ignorant of their own history.