Linguistics
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How researchers combined linguistics and archaeology to determine the age of Dravidian languages
Michael Dunn, The Conversation Annemarie Verkerk, The Conversation
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The family of Dravidian languages is 4,500 years old, finds new study
Scroll Staff
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Between the lines: What Kazakhstan’s move from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin alphabet signifies
Andrew Linn, The Conversation
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The leading academy for French is up in arms against a movement to make the language less sexist
Olivia Walsh, The Conversation Thomas Godard, The Conversation
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Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow
Claire Bowern, The Conversation
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Beware the bad big wolf: Why you need to put your adjectives in the right order
Simon Horobin, The Conversation
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Podcast: Several Indian languages face the risk of dying. Here's what we stand to lose
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
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The book of 'The BFG' movie reminds us that wordplay is part of learning and mastering language
Simon Horobin, The Conversation
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How the Queen’s English has had to defer to Africa’s rich multilingualism
Rajend Mesthrie, The Conversation