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As promised, more updates today: English-Georgian, English-Old English, English-Maltese and English-Esperanto. The largest update is the Georgian dictionary, our previous wordlist used romanized characters and had about 3,500 entries, but …
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Four dictionaries have been updated today: English-Indonesian, English-Malay (with a list sent by Wu-Kung Sun), English-Hawaiian (with a list sent by Charles A. Aiken) and Mam (by J D Young). …
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I would like to give you a crazy prospection about Albanian language derivation from Pelasgian lost language. Albanian and Etruscian language are very similar. Gegh dialect of Albanian language can …
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Languages are a bit like animal species, they disappear from the surface of the Earth at an alarming rate. And just like animal species, the study of a rare language …
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As the native language of a small Pacific Island, Samoan faces the same challenges many other indigenous languages are up against in the modern, globalized world. But Samoan also has …
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TED talks, once the realm of academics and business magnates, are now well known and widely spread thanks to the Internet. But despite the level playing field the web has …
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Kurdish nationalists within Turkey won a small victory recently when they were granted the right to use their own language in court. Kurdish populations comprise large minority groups in several …
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The latest reports from the Vatican have announced the establishment of a Pontifical Academy for Latin, designed to encourage and spread the learning of Latin around the world. Latin has …
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As a Pacific colony of the French, Tahiti suffered the same fate as many other colonies – its native language became somewhat displaced by the language of the colonizers. But …
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In previous years Indonesian was acknowledge by Australian officials as one of the most important ‘strategic languages’ for its citizens to learn. Indonesia, with the world’s fourth-largest population, is an …
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