All posts2025 The privileges and challenges of a ‘first language’ English speaker and language learner (by Claire French) Prepare for: LingoSlam 2025!!!!! (by ViGør) The Etymology, Origin, and Legend of “Chopsticks” (by Xie Rongrong) Phono-Semantic Matching (by Ghil'ad Zuckermann) Questions or answers in a book with a questionable title? (by Peter Bakker) The Power of the Written Word in the Mother Tongue (by Anastasiia Tambovtseva) On linguistic inequality and means to fight it (by Laura Villa Galan, Martha Sif Karrebæk & Marta Kirilova) Is the Greenlandic language extinct? (by Peter Bakker) Expedition into the savannah and jungle to look for a lost language (by Peter Bakker) World Endangered Writing Day II, January 23rd, 2025 (by Tim Brookes)2024 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LINGUISTIC CHRISTMAS – Vol. 2 (by Maria Jørgensen) Basque as an (imperfect) window into the past (by Iván Igartua) Conlangs & Computer Games, part 4: What Does the Fox Say? (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Conlangs & computer games, part 3: Ancient robots in space! (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Conlangs & computer games, part 2: The reconstruction of Babel (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Conlangs & computer games, part 1: The gaming giants (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Creole languages and island vernacular architectures (by Joshua Nash) Mr. Love and Mrs. Liberty: Does grammatical gender influence personification in abstract concepts? (by Otis Arnevik Lilley) Bob Marley and his language, the film about him, and irates of the Caribbean (by Peter Bakker) Global Languages Day, Sept. 17, Dokk1, Aarhus, Denmark (by Ana Paulla Braga Mattos, Peter Bakker, & Amalie Berthelsen) Creaking in the throat – why Danish high school students have a hard time pronouncing Spanish (by Andreas Filskov Kirk Østergaard) Expanding Greenlandic Language to Support 2SLGBTQIA+ Terminology and challenging the colonial heteronormativity (by Qillaq Olsen) Silent letters and consonant pairs in Irish (by Tristan Anders Søndergaard) Who Understands Comics? Or: How I learned that I don’t draw bad comics, I just read backwards (by Yoav Tirosh) What is the New Nordic Lexicon and how did it come about? (by Nicola Anne Witcombe) Portuguese Language Day: Exploring the Global Tapestry of Portuguese Influence (by Ana Paulla Braga Mattos) Call for applications: take part in the 14th edition of Liet International, the competition for songs in minority languages in Bastia, Corsica! (by Liet International) International Romani Day (by Stephane Laederich) The Language Song/Oqaatsigut (by Yair Sapir) Apolonia 13. A woman’s journey to the moon and back. From theater to painter. A moving documentary worth watching (by Peter Bakker) Some Bridges (by Joel Letkemann) World Endangered Writing Day: January 23rd, 2024 (by Tim Brookes)2023 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LINGUISTIC CHRISTMAS (by Maria Jørgensen) Can we linguists prevent a war? How can linguistic research establish whether Venezuela could have some kind of right to claim parts of Guyana? (by Peter Bakker) The role of extinct languages in the Venezuela-Guyana conflict (by Peter Bakker) Documenting fishing records and wet placenames around Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia (by Joshua Nash) Lingoblog, true crime and the identification of the victim after more than 30 years (by Peter Bakker) Languages in Angola (by Peter Bakker) The life and death of Mrs. Alice Stevens (1899–1987) and her native language (ca. 1700–1987) (by Kristoffer Friis Bøegh & Peter Bakker) The Centre of Voice Studies at Aarhus University (by Míša Hejná) The Munsee of southern Ontario (Canada) and their struggle to preserve their language (by Franz L. Wojciechowski) An excellent tool for learning Greenlandic by yourself! (by Viveka Velupillai) Lingua Franca: Elusive contact language of Christian slave colony based in Algiers finally pinned down (by Rachel Selbach) On Conlanging, Action Figures & Te Reo Māori (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Chinese in political communication (by Benjamin Davies and Johanne Nedergaard) Voices that scare us: perspectives from an audio horror production (by Sofia Navarro Beck) On Friday the 10/02, Noam Chomsky will give a lecture at ViGør in Aarhus (by Móeiður Vigfúsdóttir) A French-Canadian Métis historian in a bilingual country (by Rebekah Baglini) Learning about language by creating a language – a fun and creative approach to teaching linguistics (by Geertje Graehn) Two linguists engage in a dialogue about Chomsky’s language theory. They are completely at odds, but will they grow closer? (by Peter Bakker & Ken Ramshøj Christensen) Language as immersion tools: the case of videogames (by Johan Valentin Keller) Papiamentu: a new description of a young language (by Bart Jacobs)2022 Reading other people’s letters for the good of science. What the ‘early years of phonology’ can teach us now (by Sarah Melker) Experimental and Edgy Linguistics Somethingness: Sexy Syntax, Phenomenal Phonology, Phonetic Phenomenology, and Not Giving a Fuck (by Míša Hejná) Forced “yes” or “no” response as an interview format (by Søren Sandager Sørensen) Silencing the Vikings: Bureaucracy and The End of Old Norse at Aarhus University (by Richard Cole) Book Review: ‘In the Land of Invented Languages’ by Arika Okrent (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Conlang-week in Aarhus (by Geertje Graehn) Derek Bickerton (1926-2018), the insular linguist, and his work (by Peter Bakker) A new book about the history of English (by Peter Trudgill) Rhyme and Reason (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Esperanto as a national language: the Italian army invaded a rebellious foreign power (by Peter Bakker) Micronations and their national languages (by Peter Bakker) Free Ukrainian! Special linguistic operation for the Ukraine: Free Ukranian-Danish-Ukrainian dictionary for displaced Ukrainians and their helpers. (by Peter Bakker) LingoSlam 2022! More exciting than ever! (by Alexandra R. Kratschmer) Report from Liet International 2022 – Corsican victory and almost a Danish-language winner (by Søren Sandager Sørensen) Mbessa: The Cameroonian language that refused to be swallowed by Kom (by Kenneth Nsah) Creator of Dothraki language from Game of Thrones visits Aarhus University (by Nina Vad Thomsen) PRESS RELEASE: Liet International 2022 definitely in Nordschleswig/Denmark (by Liet International) A Computational Linguist with HOPE (by Rebekah Baglini) Around the world on International Mother Language Day (by Ulla Weinreich) Book review: ‘European Language Matters’ by Peter Trudgill (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Shaetlan. A contact language in the North Sea. (by Viveka Velupillai) Basque and gender: how a genderless language also suffers from gender inequality (by Jon Lapresa-Serrano) Are the Nordic languages mutually understandable? (by Mariève Chouinard) How do you define “samfundssind”? – A little questionnaire study (by Alexandra R. Kratschmer)2021 The Survival of Yiddish beneath Israeli (by Ghil'ad Zuckermann) Including students in computer search activities during student counselling sessions (by Andrea Bruun) The dictionary game: for learning and entertainment (by Peter Bakker) The Swedish Romani language, historically and today (by Jon Petterson) Sietze Norder and languishing languages and islands (by Peter Bakker) Pilot: “We’re running out of fuel” Air-Traffic-Control: “Okay”. A mini CA-based analysis of the final moments of Avianca flight 52 (by Sofia Navarro Beck) Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse (by Gessica Puccini) It’s just not quite the same (by Joshua Nash) My favorite popularizing book about linguistics (after “Limits of Language”, that is) (by Peter Bakker) ”I read your Facebook post and (I think) I know who you are”, part 2: A mini-experiment on author psychology assessment (by Alexandra R. Kratschmer) ”I read your Facebook post and (I think) I know who you are”, part 1: A mini-history of author analysis (by Alexandra R. Kratschmer) Karl Verner, world-famous linguist – a former student at the Aarhus Cathedral School. Part 4 (by Lars H. Eriksen) Karl Verner, world-famous linguist – a former student from Aarhus Cathedral School. Part 3 (by Lars H. Eriksen) Karl Verner, world-famous linguist – an former student of Aarhus Cathedral School. Part 2 (by Lars H. Eriksen) A language without a nation (by Eckhard Bick) Karl Verner, world-famous linguist – a former student from Aarhus Cathedral School. Part 1 (by Lars H. Eriksen) How does Lingua Franca induce loneliness? Thoughts upon reading Nolan’s 2020 “The Elusive Case of Lingua Franca” (by Rachel Selbach) Lingolit II – Linguistics in the pop press (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Irish Travellers and their Language (by Peter Bakker) The future of the Romani language (by Hristo Kyuchukov) The eagle: a metaphor for power – or rather a symbol? (by Alexandra R. Kratschmer og Peer Bundgaard) Hvítasunnubrúðhlaupin – Philip Larkin’s best known poem found to be based on previously lost Old Norse manuscript (by Alex Chen) Gatho, lippy, rego — why Australians love hypocoristics (by Helen Bromhead) Indigenous languages in Brazil and the Corona epidemic. (by Hein van der Voort) Languages in and around Armenia (by Byurakn Ishkanyan) Dan Everett on the ethics of linguistic fieldwork (by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren) Dan Everett on the excitement of being a linguist (by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren) Writing and language in ancient Mesopotamia (by Rasmus Aarslev) Island languages (by Joshua Nash)2020 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LINGUISTIC CHRISTMAS (by Maria Jørgensen) Revolution in Yiddish teaching: The New Yiddish Textbook In eynem (by Frank Gabel) The mobile phone effect in linguistics (by Krestina Vendelbo Christensen) Does he say he twice as often as she? Women, men and language (by Mikkel Wallentin) The first ever Twitter-conference on linguistics is taking place this Saturday! (by Red.) A dybtgoing study af nisse-engelsk (by Peter Bakker) Deborah Cameron on the impact of feminist linguistic research (by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren) The Story of Speech Synthesis: From Talking Tubes to Neural Networks, Part 1/3 (by Christopher Cox) Can sounds have meaning? The peculiar case of West-Flemish tj and dj (by Jeroen Willemsen & Joost Robbe) When Rihanna ‘mumbles’ in her native language (by Yonatan Ungermann Goldshtein) A good sign! Myths about sign languages (by Linguistic Mythbusters) Did Denmark get a new dialect? (by Ditte Zachariassen) Why has a rape only “allegedly” taken place? (by Lærke Nørgaard Sørensen) What is schwa? (by Andrea Brink Siem) On some colonial power structures in the field of linguistics (by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren) Your brain can learn languages your whole life… (by Anders Højen) When language becomes violence (by Liv Moeslund Ahlgren) Translation of the week: Aphasia in West Greenlandic (by Red.) Aphasia in West Greenlandic affects syntax but leaves morphology intact (by Johanne Nedergård) African languages in the 1700s Danish West Indies (by Kristoffer Friis Bøegh) An exciting month awaits Lingoblog’s English speaking readers… (by Red.) How do learners make use of foreign language learning materials? (by Nathalie Schümchen) Global live presentations on linguistics on the net: Lingoblogger featured on June 7th (by Red.) COVIDictionary. Your go-to dictionary in times of Coronavirus and COVID-19 (by Peter Bakker) Tricky Trickster in Amerindian traditions (by Peter Bakker) LingoLit: A Linguist’s Quarantine Reading Guide (by Gustav Styrbjørn Johannessen) Balanguru – a Kalasha village in northern Pakistan described (by Peter Bakker) The Danish pronoun ‘man’ used as ‘I’ in conversation (by Andrea Bruun) Liet International 2020 in Aabenraa, Nordschleswig/Denmark: songs in 20 languages (by Liet International) Only 100 spoken words per day: Vox (by Andrea Bruun)2019 A Brief History of the Canadian Language Museum or How a Posting on Linguist List Changed My Life (by Elaine Gold) Tevfik Esenç & Ubykh: cenaze – begrafenis – begravelse – funeral (by Peter Bakker) The funeral of a language: The burial of Tevfik Esenç and the Ubykh language (by Peter Bakker) Researchers hiding in fear of GDPR (by Anon.) Effects of GDPR (by Anon.) What is GDPR? A compliance guide (by Emily Melsen Jørgensen, Phoebe Berke, Giordana Meloni & Carina Ryge Andersen) Reviving an indigenous language: an interview with Daniel Huircapán (by Sofia Navarro Beck) The Voynich manuscript: the decipherment of ms. 408 (by Peter Bakker) A report from the “They, Hirself, Em, and You” Conference: “Nonbinary pronouns in research and practice” (by Ehm Miltersen) Book review: An extinct creole language of the Danish West Indies (by Peter Bakker) Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911-2010) (by Peter Bakker) ‘Microphone in the Mud’ by Laura Robinson (by Jeroen Willemsen) Deedah dialect words and phrases (by Johanna Blakey) The menstrual cycle in linguistics? (by Míša Hejná) Culture and language of the Kalasha (by Peter Bakker) Language attitudes towards Sheng: deterioration or unification? (by Benjamin Riise) Snow: the word’s effect (by Carl Masthay) Grammar and lexicon distinction in a neurocognitive context (by Byurakn Ishkanyan) 2019 – International Year of Indigenous Languages (by Jeroen Willemsen)2018 Describing NisseEngelsk: A Brief Memoir (by Margaret J. “Mickey” Blake) The language of The Julekalender (by Peter Bakker) Phon-phon for phun (by Míša Hejná) The complicated femininity of “Sut Min Klit” (by Rocío Lorenzo López) Linguistic Ethnography in Barber Shoppen (by Benjamin Riise) Creoles, fieldwork and linguistic theory – an interview with Peter Bakker (by Jeroen Willemsen) Is she biased? Are you? (by Telma Peura) What can linguistics do (for me)? – or how I turned (from) science (in)to art (by Joshua Nash) Fieldwork in a maroon community in Brazil – an interview with Ana Paulla Braga Mattos (by Jeroen Willemsen, Ana Paulla Braga Mattos & Kristoffer Friis Bøegh) Fieldwork in Saint Croix – an interview with Kristoffer Friis Bøegh (by Jeroen Willemsen, Ana Paulla Braga Mattos & Kristoffer Friis Bøegh) Fieldwork in Nusa Tenggara Timur – an interview with Jeroen Willemsen (by Jeroen Willemsen, Ana Paulla Braga Mattos & Kristoffer Friis Bøegh) Ragnarǫk at the University of Copenhagen? The ideology of closing down smaller language programmes (by Richard Cole) Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren. Book review. (by Peter Bakker) Why are there so many different types of “R”? (by Andrea Brink Siem & Jeroen Willemsen) Description, theory and linguistics as a science – an interview with William B. McGregor (by Jeroen Willemsen) A creole book and a dedication to a creolist: Philip Baker (by Peter Bakker) Name signs in Danish Sign Language (by Julie Bakken Jepsen) Welcome to Lingoblog (by Red.)
