Linguistics Everyday

Bringing linguistics concepts into the everyday!

Cree - With Arms Wide Open - A Linguistic Primer 09/03/2023

Cree - With Arms Wide Open - A Linguistic Primer Cara, Drew, and Ed are back to do a deep dive into the the Native American language of Cree. They explore the rich linguistic heritage, cultural significance, and fascinating nuances of Cree, shedding light on a vital part of Indigenous culture. @LinguisticsEver @carabrarian @edwardgiordano linguisticseveryday@gmail.com The Papers Discussed Proto-Algonquian Stop Clusters in Cree-Montagnais by David H. Pentland On the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Cree by Brian D. Joseph Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree by William Lane, Atticus Harrigan, and Antti Arppe Plains Cree pêyâhtikowêwin: The Ethic of Talking Softly by Jeffrey Muehlbauer /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/27926520

The Manchu Candidate 02/07/2023

The Manchu Candidate On this episode of Linguistics Everyday, Ed, Cara, and Drew discuss the Manchu language, the Jurchen people, and a little bit about the History of China. Contact us at @LinguisticsEver or email us at Some papers: Language death and language revivalism The case of Manchu by Daniel Kane The Manchu Academy of Beijing by Laura E. Hess Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Compositions and Their Verse-Technique by Giovanni Stary Some Observations on a Rubbing of a 17th—Century Inscription in Uighur-Mongolian Script with Elements of Manchu Script and Orthography by Hsiao Su-yin The Legitimization of the Qing Dynasty by Piero Corradini /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/25862508

Human and Language Migration in the Past 08/03/2022

Human and Language Migration in the Past 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: /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/23952333

Ukraine on the Membrane 04/10/2022

Ukraine on the Membrane 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 /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/22740947

Arctic Knot Conference w/ Wikitongues and Wikimedia Norway 05/19/2021

Arctic Knot Conference w/ Wikitongues and Wikimedia Norway 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/19156940

Scandinavian Rune Sisters 03/02/2021

Scandinavian Rune Sisters 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! /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/18149906

Lingua Pakistani 11/30/2020

Lingua Pakistani 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/16995458

Quechua Catch Up 10/29/2020

Quechua Catch Up 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! /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/16594379

Interview with Wikitongues Director Daniel Bögre Udell 09/21/2020

Interview with Wikitongues Director Daniel Bögre Udell 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! /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/16103789

Slavic Language Cousins 08/18/2020

Slavic Language Cousins 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! /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/15654554

New Kings of the World Book Discussion - Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop 07/25/2020

New Kings of the World Book Discussion - Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/15348152

Language and Identity in South Sudan 07/10/2020

Language and Identity in South Sudan 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/15154145

Emoji as Lingua Franca 06/18/2020

Emoji as Lingua Franca 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14882546

A Death in the Rainforest Book Discussion 06/11/2020

A Death in the Rainforest Book Discussion 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14781647

Hebrew Language Revitalization 05/22/2020

Hebrew Language Revitalization 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14523671

Language Death and Destruction 05/06/2020

Language Death and Destruction 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14301137

English Any Way You Want It 04/26/2020

English Any Way You Want It 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! /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14155118

Creoles a Beginner's Guide 04/26/2020

Creoles a Beginner's Guide 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. /episode/index/show/linguisticseveryday/id/14153975

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