Discover the fascinating linguistic history of the first European-recorded word list in the Philippines, compiled by Antonio Pigafetta during Magellan's…
In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…
Forget the weathered notebook and tape recorder. Modern linguists are deploying a high-tech toolkit to document endangered languages, using portable…
Imagine being the first outsider to document a language with no written form. How would you create its first-ever dictionary?…
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…
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