In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…
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Forget the weathered notebook and tape recorder. Modern linguists are deploying a high-tech toolkit to document endangered languages, using portable…
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Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) don't "read" your resume; they parse it using strict linguistic rules. To get past this digital…
Author verification is the "Anti-Turing Test"—a field of linguistic forensics that determines if a specific person wrote a given text.…
In 1974, UNESCO declared the Manx language extinct with the death of its last native speaker, Ned Maddrell. Yet, this…
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