languages & linguistics

Random bits and bobs related to languages more generally and to linguistics

* http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-languages-evolve-alex-gendler#watch
* TED Playing with Language: http://ed.ted.com/series/playing-with-language 
* http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages-are-there-world
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/guide/languages.shtml

english language stuff

An interesting quiz about dialects from New York: 
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

An A-Z of some intriguing English etymologies: 
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/15/from-a-to-ampersand
 

language extinction

* One World, Many Voices
* http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/
* http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/26/three-european-languages-that-you-didnt-know-existed
* National Geographic's Vanishing Voices 
* http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2013/endangered-languages/ 
* http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html?pagewanted=all

other bits and bobs

Also, check out these by James chapman - ANIMAL NOISES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES