Jabal al-Lughat

No, not in the political sense, in the psychological one... Just thought I'd share a piece of an excellent Siwi poem that struck me as ...

Hi everybody! I'm in Siwa, and things are going well. The oasis is so much bigger and more prosperous than Tabelbala it seems almost d...

Not everyone welcomes language revitalisation efforts. Apart from anything else, it often implies that a major decision taken by you or you...

Like most (all?) Songhay languages, Kwarandzie has two sets of 3rd person pronouns: in this case, they are a (sg.) / i (pl.) vs. ana / ini. ...

Bulbul sent me a link I just had to post about : the article describes, among other things, a secret language used by the Gnaoua, descendan...

When two sounds exchange their positions (for example, clip > plik) we call it metathesis . In most languages, this doesn't seem par...

In a brief Edge article ( see LH ), Lera Boroditsky makes the thought-provoking remark - regarding perception of colours - that “It turns o...

A quick Google search turns up a number of theories on the etymology of the name Tabelbala, none of which correspond to the one that old men...

When I first got here, I thought I was seeing a textbook language shift situation. But I gradually realised something that I don't reme...

Sahha Eidkoum, Eid Mubarak, and `agbwa lgabel to everybody out there! And to the rest of you, hope you're having a great holiday and a ...

“əl`əyš ṭazu, əlma iri العيش طازو، الماء إيري əlləṛḍ gəndza, ssma bini.” الأرض قندا، السما بيني “Couscous is ṭazu , water iri , ...

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...