Dialectology is the geography of language, revealing the hidden maps drawn by our words. From old-school fieldwork with clipboards to…
Imagine learning a language with no alphabet, no dictionary, and no textbooks. This is the challenge for field linguists who…
When we think of a linguist, we picture quiet libraries, not active conflict zones. But for a small group of…
Imagine a language that has never been written down, a rich tapestry of human thought existing only in sound and…
Once believed to be extinct, the Kusunda language of Nepal is a true linguistic ghost, with no known relatives in…
Imagine trying to learn a language with no textbook, no translator, and no shared vocabulary. The monolingual fieldwork method is…
What are the ethical responsibilities of a linguist who is the first outsider to document a language from a previously…
Every two weeks, a language dies, taking with it a unique way of seeing the world. Meet the "Language Catchers,"…
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