Paul Giulan<p>Most spoken <a href="https://federate.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> in every <a href="https://federate.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a>, other than English and Spanish</p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Aleut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aleut</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Portuguese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portuguese</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/HaitianCreole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaitianCreole</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Korean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Korean</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arabic</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Hmong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hmong</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Vietnamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnamese</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Tagalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tagalog</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Dakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dakota</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/graphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphic</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a></p>
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Joel M. Hoffman, PhD<p>To start the week, a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> quiz! True of false:</p><p>1. In <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HINDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HINDI</span></a>, the words for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" are the same.</p><p>2. In <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ESKIMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESKIMO</span></a>-<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ALEUT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ALEUT</span></a>, there are many more words for "snow" than in English.</p><p>3. In <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HEBREW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HEBREW</span></a>, there are more than five ways to pronounce the word for "and."</p><p>4. In <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TURKISH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TURKISH</span></a>, a word's pronunciation depends on previous words in the sentence.</p><p>Cont'd...</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>languagelovers</span></a></span> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>עברית</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>Can a dead language be revived? - <a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=57004" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class="invisible">?p=57004</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hebrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hebrew</span></a> was, others can if there's a will (and some financial support...) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aleut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aleut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
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