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The Parliament of Catalunya passed legislation on November 9th, 2015, declaring its intention to start a process that will lead this Spanish Autonomous Community to political independence from Spain. The close vote…

Just to give a little insight of the goings-on in the world of linguistics: Lately there has been a discussion on where the Australian accent originated, some claim it would have come…

On Saturday October 24th, citizens and politicians got to the streets in support of several local languages spoken within French territory. The simultaneous demonstrations took place in Montpellier (for Occitan and Catalan),…

Here’s the second student blogpost in our series on ‘Linguistic landscapes’, this time on the presence of the Groninger dialect, by Anna Huiting (read the first post here). Blog Post on the…

REBLOG: Amber Nota, who is a PhD at our Department of Frisian Language and Culture, wrote this excitant blog entry at her project’s website (https://sites.google.com/site/multilimelo/blog). Happy to reblog! “The disappearance of the…

Here’s the first in a series of student blog posts on linguistic landscapes! (Cool term, but what does it mean?) Linguistic landscapes is all about the mapping of the language around you.…

I was excited when one of my colleagues pointed out to me that there was an article by Ravindranath (2015) about sociolinguistics and language contact in a recent issue of the journal…

You may be familiar with Google Translate: the translator of Google that provides everyone with translations from all over the world. Among these languages are minority languages such as Basque, Catalan, Māori,…