The One Root of All Australia’s Indigenous Languages
The linguistic journal Diachronica published a study by Mark Harvey of University of Newcastle and Robert Mailhammer from Western Sydney University. Their paper …
Category Archives: Linguistic Anthropology
Breaking Down Sranan Tongo To Understand Linguistic & Cultural Heritage
Creole languages are unique. They are a hodgepodge of languages which arise in situations where people exist without a shared …
The Yamnaya Horsemen & Root of Proto-Indo-European Language
Proto-Indo-European or PIE is the term coined for a ancestral language to the group of languages from Europe and parts …
Linking Early Human Language & Cave Art
Human language is thought to emerge around 100,000 years ago as an abstract symbolic system. It is very likely that …
The Discovery of Jedek, An Unknown Language Discovered in Southeast Asia
Per Linguistic Society of America’s latest count, there are about 7,000 distinct human languages on Earth, with more becoming extinct everyday. …
Untangling The Ancient Khipu Code Of Strings
Last week in Current Anthropology, University of St. Andrews anthropologist Sabine Hyland, published, “Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity …
An Auditory Reconstruction of the 6,000 Year Old Proto-Indo-European Language
Have you ever wondered what language sounded like in the past? In the mid-19th century, actually 1868, German linguist, August Schleicher, …
A Hope To Persevere Navajo Oral History
Jolyana Begay-Kroupa (@jolyanab), a Stanford language lecturer, hopes to digitize 300 reels of tape, holding thousands of hours of Navajo oral …
What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Using Technology to Save Endangered Languages
There are many endangered languages in our collective linguistic radar. Some of them have been covered here before and some haven’t. In 2007, Joshua …
