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The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #9 May / June 2014
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Constructed Languages
Making It All Up
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Artificially made languages, called "constructed languages", or conlangs, are a large part of the language world, having their own purposes. They also sometimes bring out strong emotions in people.
Language Conflicts
Flemish vs. Walloon
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When two languages fight for dominance in the same country, the outcome is usually either violence or separation. For now, Belgium is managing to avoid those, but just barely.
Rohonc Codex
Hungarian Enigma
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The Voynich Manuscript isn't the only volume of text and images that hasn't been translated. The Rohonc Codex is another mystery, although not as well known.
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Constructed Languages
Making It All Up
Artificially made languages, called "constructed languages", or conlangs, are a large part of the language world, having their own purposes. They also sometimes bring out strong emotions in people.
Language Conflicts
Flemish vs. Walloon
When two languages fight for dominance in the same country, the outcome is usually either violence or separation. For now, Belgium is managing to avoid those, but just barely.
Rohonc Codex
Hungarian Enigma
The Voynich Manuscript isn't the only volume of text and images that hasn't been translated. The Rohonc Codex is another mystery, although not as well known.
COLUMNS
Letter From The Editor
Tracing Words
Finding the origins of a language help us categorize it with similar languages, but did you know that even individual words can be traced to different origins?
At the Cinema
Il Comandante e la Cicogna - Garibaldi's Lovers
Lovers meet in a number of strange ways, and Leo and Diana are two that find that out. They find each other amid an illegal scheme and a stork.
Where Are You?
Guess the city and country from the article and picture.
Words in Your Mouth
Sausage
In "Words in Your Mouth" we examine the etymologies of various food names. This month is the very tasty "sausage" and its foreign equivalences.
Book Look
Two short reviews of language related books.
GlobTech
Using Locale
When creating a multilingual site, it can be time consuming to properly format dates for each language of the site. Fortunately, PHP provides a solution with the "locale"...
IN OTHER ISSUES
The Phaistos Disc
Puzzle of Crete
Perhaps the worlds greatest linguistic puzzle, the Phaistos Disc, found in the basement of an ancient palace, has confused scholars for a century with it's unknown text a...
The Beginning Of A Surprising But Promising Partnership - LingoHut and TeachMe.vn
Vincent Esnoul tells how his site, TeachMe.vn and LingoHut joined forces to reach more people.
Otto Jespersen
Progress of Language
Otto Jespersen was a Danish linguist who was not only active in language teaching reform but also instrumental in the creation of the international phonetic alphabet and ...
Languages in Peril
Sayonara, Ainu
Indigenous languages and people are often wiped out by an invading force or a competing culture. Such it is with the Ainu people of northern Japan, but they did not give ...
The Cost of Free Language Resources
When learning a language, it is great to find so many resources available which do not cost anything to use. However, nothing is ever truly free, and someone gave up some...
Special Feature
Avoiuli
Cultures and languages influence each other, but how often does a cultural practice become a form of writing a language? On the island nation of Vanuatu, this has happene...
Why Do People Learn Languages?
People who study languages beyond just their native one ask many questions regarding which languages are the best or worst to learn. But why do these people actually lear...
The Learning Mindset
Language learning isn't a straight course. You will encounter both success and failure along the way. Kendal Knetemann gives her advice on how to get the right attitude.
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