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My friend Drew Vendrell comes to share some of his research on human migration in the past and how it affected spoken language patterns, with a huge breadth and scope from sea to shining yangtze. linguisticseveryday@gmail.com @linguisticsever @edwardgiordano @carabrarian   Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36788165.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34832781.amp https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/europes-ancient-proto-cities-may-have.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JTY9K1Q_Sbg https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XqweWFRCleY https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LRBwWZs3W0Q

Cara and Ed are back to discuss the tumultuous history of the Ukrainian Language! Some sources: The Ukrainian Language under Totalitarianism and Total War Language Attitudes in Independent Ukraine: Differentiation and Evolution The Ukrainian Language in Education and Mass Media

This week we are joined by Kristen, from Wikitongues, and Jon, from Wikimedia Norway, to discuss the upcoming Arctic Knot Conference, taking place from June 24th to 25th, 2021. They discuss the ongoing preservation efforts they are taking with the Sámi languages at the conference. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Knot_Conference_2021 Thank you to Kristen and Jon for filling us in on all the details of the conference and what both organizations are up to! The History of Ideas with Astrid Carlsen https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sp9KQXu3RQeSpVZyWAyRg?si=KHAx_071Q72Ux1RZKomh_A @LinguisticsEver LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com  

Cara and Ed come back from a brief hiatus and tackle Scandinavian Languages! Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Oh My! This episode is Bokmål of Nynorsk stories! A super fun episode, lots of laughs and a bit of language knowledge! https://termcoord.eu/2014/05/scandinavian-languages-mutually-understandable/ https://wordminds.com/blog/difference-nordic-languages/ https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-scandinavian-languages-three-for-the-price-of-one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onduQjgAj8Y https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjv1nMXCmw The two Norwegian official written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Linguistic and ideological implications of national bilingualism and biliteracy By Tove Bull Icelanders’ Opinions on the Role of the State in Teaching Icelandic to Foreigners by Pamela Innes @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano

This week, Cara and Ed discuss all about the languages of Pakistan! We discuss the languages of Punjabi and Urdu in detail, as well as the script of Nastaʿlīq. The paper of the episode is Language Ideology, Identity and the Commodification of Language in the Call Centers of Pakistan by Tariq Rahman. LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano Sources: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-pakistan.html https://www.dailysabah.com/travel/2018/03/10/pakistan-a-land-of-many-languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSd7p1i_TA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98snj9lUXMQ

Cara and Ed focus on South America this episode! We discuss the major languages of South America, but then shift our focus on to the indigenous language of Quechua, with its approximately 8.5 million speakers, it is a major language in its own right. Enjoy and PLEASE VOTE!   @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com   Sources: https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/indigenous-languages-of-south-america/ https://www.gviusa.com/blog/quechua-the-surviving-language-of-the-inca-empire/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXqw24wQHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXj28dXPAU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages Spanish as a Second Language when L1 is Quechua: Endangered languages and the SLA Research by Susan E. Kalt

Today, we interview Wikitongues (https://wikitongues.org/) Director Daniel Bögre Udell! He talks about the origin of Wikitongues and its mission as well as discussing language rights all over the world and some upcoming projects for Wikitongues! A super great jam-packed episode! Daniel's Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB3-yVGHcI Wikitongues Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/WikiTongues @wikitongues @bogreudell @linguisticsever @carabrarian @edwardgiordano  

Cara and Ed tackle the Slavic Language Family with an emphasis on the Russian Language, from its Old Church Slavonic roots to the modern languages of Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Serbo-croatian, Slovak and more!   @LinguisticsEver   @Carabrarian   @EdwardGiordano   LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com   Sources:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Slavic_languages   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfpEPjfB12g   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cXIyyc-L0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLM62r5nLI   https://blog.thelinguist.com/similarities-differences-slavic-languages/

Cara and Ed along with special guest, Emily Wheeler of Film Inquiry, discuss New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto to talk about Bollywood, Dizi, K-Pop, and the shifting of soft power from America to the rest of the world. We also discuss the magical power of SRK, Turkish Soap Operas and K-Pop groups like NCT 127. @linguisticsever @movieop @carabrarian @edwardgiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com https://www.filminquiry.com/silly-brilliance-orlando/ https://bookshop.org/books/new-kings-of-the-world-dispatches-from-bollywood-dizi-and-k-pop/9781733623704

In episode 7, Cara and Ed discuss the value of an official language in the modern nation state, how language influences identity and what the language situation is in South Sudan, from Juba Arabic to English and a bit of Swahili. @LinguisticsEver@Carabrarian@EdwardGiordanoLinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com South Sudan Civil Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fjG22fCrE Peace in South Sudanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lXeyYuOnk South Sudan Traveloguehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH7UyI4mHM Article on Language Policy in South Sudanhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/14/for-south-sudan-declaring-independence-from-arabic-is-not-so-easy-language-politics-juba-khartoum-english/

Cara and Ed gather on this minisode to celebrate a huge milestone for the podcast: 500 downloads! We discuss the research of Gretchen McCulloch about emojis as language and a little bit about the experiment that was Emoji Dick (an Emoji translation re-telling of Moby Dick). We also discuss how we use emojis in our day to day lives. LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com @LinguisticsEver@Carajoell@EdwardGiordano References: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62584/will-we-all-speak-emoji-language-couple-years https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-and-what-language-death-actually-looks-like/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ybyoaz9iw https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because

In Episode 5, Cara and Ed, along with guest Jen, discuss A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick. We discuss the death of the Tayap language as well as the people of the village of Gapun. https://bookshop.org/books/a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-of-life-came-to-an-end-in-papua-new-guinea-9781643750477/9781616209049 @linguisticsever@carajoell@jennibcreative@edwardgiordanolinguisticseveryday@gmail.com

Cara and Ed gather to discuss the only truly revitalized language, Hebrew. From its 3000 BC roots to modern day, the language had been on a rollercoaster. We discuss how it’s been influenced by Arabic throughout its history and how Biblical Hebrew is different from Modern Hebrew. You can email us at LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com Twitter us@LinguisticsEver@Carajoell@EdwardGiordano References Langfocushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70jb2c8Qtsk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfThdgT6GSk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BByig02vJWM  Unpackedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiiad9fO-g A Brief History of Modern Hebrewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChcua1MLDg  https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/reviving-hebrew-persian-ancient-languages-eliezer-ben-yehuda-manekji-limji-hataria/ https://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/Freeburg%2C%20Elizabeth%20-%20Senior%20Essay.pdf

Ed and Cara discuss what is Language Death. With a language dying about every two weeks, preserving and recording these languages is of the utmost importance. We discuss different ways languages die (Gradual Language Death, Bottom-to-Top Language Death, Sudden Language Death and Radical Language Death). We also discuss dialect stigmatism and standardization in France. @linguisticsever@edwardgiordano@carajoelllinguisticseveryday@gmail.com References: Wikitongues:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18 Langfocus on Language Death:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk France 24 Video on French Dialect Diversity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5eq6dOPok Language Magazine article on Mandarin language education:https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/ Afrikaans coverage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolLuO9hM5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs

Ed and Cara take a deep dive into the world of English Based Creoles from the Carribean, Africa and the Pacific like: Hawaiian Pidgin to Kreyol to Jamaican Patois to Singlish to Manglish and many more! How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8 @linguisticsever@edwardgiordano@carajoelllinguisticseveryday@gmail.com

Ed and Cara introduce you to the exciting world of creole languages! We discuss how a pidgin becomes a creoles, what  makes a creole a creole to begin with as well as touching on the world's many creoles like Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Malaysian Creole and Juba Arabic. How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8 @linguisticsever@edwardgiordano@carajoell