The late UCLA professor Peter Ladefoged was the Indiana Jones of spoken language. For almost 50 years, the phonetics researcher traveled the globe with recording equipment, in search of obscure and ...
Not including esoteric languages like brainfuck etc. I’ll start with RTL/2, a realtime language with an emphasis on (a) re-entrancy and (b) ugliness. The only example code I can find is this, from the ...
LAST February, amid the fjords of southern Chile, an elderly woman died – and a language fell silent. Cristina CalderÓn, a much-loved 93-year-old, was the last known native speaker of Yaghan, which ...
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'Avatar': How the Na'vi language was constructed
Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language."It's been quite a remarkable event in ...
Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. It is a deep ...
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