What’s in the linguistic news? Diego knows. He’s been tracking down stories and words for us all year long, and now he’s curated an entire show for us. It’s the latest in the Diego series.
- How do you write laughter in Spanish? Or other languages?
- Why do islands have so many languages?
- Why are speakers of an Indonesian language using Korean Hangul as their writing system?
Plus Words of the Week and Related or Not!
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- Start: 0:00
- News: 5:07
- Related or Not: 34:14
- Words of the Week: 46:40
- The Reads: 59:30
- Outtakes: 1:03:18
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sundorwine | Historical Thesaurus of English
https://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?type=search&qsearch=sundorwine&word=sundorwine&label=&category=&oef=&oel=&startf=&startl=&endf=&endl=¤tf=¤tl=&year=&twoEdNew=&twoEdUpdated=&page=1#id=131269
How to laugh correctly, according to the RAE it’s not “jajaja”
https://inspain.news/how-to-laugh-correctly-according-to-the-rae-its-not-jajaja/
¿Es válido escribir la risa «jajaja»? | RAE
https://www.rae.es/duda-linguistica/es-valido-escribir-la-risa-jajaja
How To Laugh Online In 20 Languages
https://beelinguapp.com/blog/how-to-laugh-online-in-20-languages
Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/seals-and-signs-tracing-the-origins-of-writing-in-ancient-southwest-asia/B3C2D400F3F80A7A0162D9035C9C2804
Mesopotamia Artifacts Help Explain How Language Evolved from Pictures to Words
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mesopotamia-artifacts-help-explain-how-language-evolved-from-pictures-to
Language Evolves Over Time and Islands Can Drive Linguistic Diversity
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/language-evolves-over-time-and-islands-can-drive-linguistic-diversity
Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1199295
Can a linguistic serial founder effect originating in Africa explain the worldwide phonemic cline?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0185
Phonemic diversity decays “out of Africa”? | Language Log
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3090
Indigenous Indonesians use Korean letters to save a dialect
https://www.abc.net.au/asia/indigenous-indonesians-use-korean-letters-to-save-dialect/103306022
King Sejong Invents an Alphabet, by Carol Kim, illustrated by Cindy Kang
https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/king-sejong-invents-an-alphabet/
Spanish language Royal Academy incorporates the word “Che” to its latest dictionary edition
https://en.mercopress.com/2024/11/09/spanish-language-royal-academy-incorporates-the-word-che-to-its-latest-dictionary-edition#google_vignette
La RAE agregó una nueva palabra argentina al diccionario
https://www.pilaradiario.com/la-pancha/la-rae-agrego-una-nueva-palabra-argentina-al-diccionario-n5457753
‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft
https://singularityhub.com/2024/11/21/droidspeak-ai-agents-now-have-their-own-language-thanks-to-microsoft/
[PDF] DroidSpeak: Enhancing cross-LLM communication
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02820
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