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UCLA Brings Aztec From the Past into the Present
In an interesting combination of art and language, a UCLA professor is leading the research for an Aztec text.
UCLA historian, Kevin Terraciano, is working with art experts at the Getty Center in collaboration with...
Chile
Covering 4,300 km (2,700 miles) of the western coast of South America, Chile is situated between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. From the Atacama Desert to Cape Horn, Chile has a diverse range...
Poly Aims to Share ALL the World’s Languages
Poly began after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year as an open source, modern software built to share and learn languages in text and video. The project was created by Wikitongues founders and directors...
Speaking of the Ice Age
University of Virginia linguistic anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli and colleagues are applying the latest technology to an ancient mystery: how and when early humans inhabited the New World.
New research, which uses “big data” techniques...
Malaysian DJ Spins Sabeh
Atama Katama, a Malaysian DJ who has been spinning dance music across Malaysia for the past 15 years, has recently turned his attention towards indigenous issues and language. Katama, who has been playing dance...
Native American Linguist Wins $625,000 ‘Genius Grant’
MacArthur Foundation has announced the 2016 MacArthur Fellows, commonly known as the “genius grants,” and this year’s class includes Native American linguist Daryl Baldwin. Daryl and 22 other Fellows will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 grant for...
Native American Linguist Wins $625,000 ‘Genius Grant’
The MacArthur Foundation announced the 2016 MacArthur Fellows today, commonly known as the “genius grants,” and this year’s class includes Native American linguist Daryl Baldwin. Daryl and 22 other Fellows will receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 grant...
On the Road to Multilingualism
Bilingual rapper GüeroLoco takes us on his passionate journey to promote language learning and allow students to reap the benefits
Welcome to the journey! iBienvenidos al viaje! I’m really excited to get this school year started...
Adopt an Emoji, Save a Language
The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the computing industry standard for digital writing systems, is allowing people to adopt an emoji or any Unicode character in order to give speakers of more languages the...
The True Tongue of the Tsimshian Tribe
The language of the Tsimshian tribe of the Pacific Northwest is called Sm'algyax (alternatively spelled Shm'algyack), which directly translates to, “real or true tongue.” In order to give the Tsimshian children a sense of...
