It’s just not something people talk about in Amondawa. Time, that is. No days, no months or years to speak of. No ages among the Amondawa, they just keep changing their names to reflect different stages and status. This group was living up the Amazon with first contact just 25 years ago. BBC interviewed Chris […]
Continue ReadingCall it incitement to murder? Boers are the descendants of Dutch who fought the Xhosa for centuries for control of the veldt of South Africa. Bad blood is boiling ever since ANCYL (African National Congress Youth League) President Julius Malema added a catchy little number to his vocal set, which, despite court order, he was […]
Continue ReadingWhat puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got? The Best Language Blog Prize, that’s what. Last year, Lexiophiles and bab.la had a vote for the best Language Blog. Translation Guy won the vote by a landslide, but that wasn’t enough to take the prize, since votes only half-counted. So […]
Continue ReadingNo one likes to see a language die, yet it happens every day. It’s really a growth industry. Academics are making careers and earning grant money by trolling the world’s remote spots and finding lost languages on the brink of extinction. Rescuing a dying language is a good thing, done in the name of science […]
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