Jabal al-Lughat

I've gotten a clearer idea of the linguistic situation here. Apart from Kwarandjie, which, as I've said, is the main language of th...

Today I'm in Bechar, with a somewhat more effective net connection; I apologise for the poor appearance of the previous one, which I sen...

Hello everybody! I am alive and well in Tabelbala, speaking "Korandje" ([kwɑ́:ṛɑ-n-dʒji], probably /kwaṛa-n-dzyəy/) on a regula...

I am currently in Bechar, the local capital, and plan to take the four-hour coach trip to Tabelbala tomorrow inshallah. After corresponding...

First of all: a belated Eid Mubarak everybody! Second: Tomorrow I'm flying to Algeria, and heading to Tabelbala soon after to document K...

I recently found out just how much downloadable language material - mainly Peace Corps manuals, grammars, and dictionaries - there was on a...

While I was in Algeria, I was watching a cousin's toddler play with one of those toy computers that play a word when you press on a lett...

Thanks to the efforts of various press agencies, there has been a story floating around the Internet this year about the "first Tamaz...

Many readers will recall Everett's argument that Pirahã had no universal quantifier because statements featuring what he had originally...

I went to Tizi-Ouzou today, where I bought a few Kabyle-related books. The smallest, a tiny little handbook entitled Cahier d'écriture ...

In English, "you" is equally used in a literal sense (referring to the addressee) or in an impersonal sense (referring to an arbit...

I heard a great word today: tməhbəl تمهبل "behave like a crazy person", a verb derived by consonant extraction from the noun/adje...

Under the circumstances, a little non-linguistic posting seems to be called for. Some criminal exploded a bomb here in Dellys yesterday , d...

A child's speech error I heard reported the other day provides a great illustration of the psychological reality both of allophones and ...

Every time I come to Dellys, in between all the visiting and swimming, I find myself marvelling at the full linguistic resources of colloqui...

I'm just back from a conference at Leiden , and heading off to take a holiday in Algeria very soon; here's my interim report to tide...

The bewilderingly odd and sometimes strangely evocative phrases that some phrasebook compilers apparently expect to be useful have caught th...

In historical linguistics, when a word or string of words is reinterpreted as consisting of a different set of words (for example, when ...

A Pakistani physicist weighs in on the state of science in the Islamic world in Physics Today , a magazine I used to subscribe to during th...

I've been keeping busy lately, looking at some rather interesting grammatical facts about the Berber dialect of Ngousa (Ingusa) which I ...