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Staff & Student drinks
On Friday 18 March, Study Association Multi organised their monthly social event. M&M Students and staff were invited to enjoy a drink together at ‘Het Pakhuis’ in the city centre of Groningen.…
Can you recognise Frisians in Dutch?
Connected to the department of Minorities and Multilingualism is a research group: Multilingual Melodies. This group investigates the melody and intonation of language spoken in the province of Fryslân. At this moment, an…
The Other Side of Research
During our Introduction to Minority Languages class, we were required to partake in a research experiment at the university, to gain an insight into what it is like to be a subject…
OMG! Can we use social media to investigate language change?
For the last class of Introduction to Minority Languages II the first-year students (of BA M&M) were asked to do a small investigation of language in social media. One of the larger…
A Global Crisis of Identity
Reports reach us daily about the state of the world, which should induce us to worry about its future: mass killings in Paris; a criminal, misogynist mob greets the New Year in…
Knocked out by language change
Regilio Tuur is a once famous lightweight boxer from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Every Dutchman has heard him give interviews in Dutch many times. Here we see him perform in a Dutch…
Lecture on Writing systems and Invented languages
“Sumerian? Maya? Armenian? Cherokee? – What writing systems should I select if there are so many? How can I fit into 45 minutes if there is a universe of scripts, each of…
A Visit From Norway
This week the Department welcomed a delegation of 8 employees from the Norwegian linguistic society ‘Noregs Mållag’, an organisation that works with the promotion of the written variety ‘Nynorsk’ in Norway. The…
Student blog: Linguistic landscapes (3)
Here’s the last of our student post-series on linguistic landscapes! Hope you enjoyed this short glimpse into one of the topics dealt with in the BA programme and the different blog posts…
North Catalans rally for more autonomy
November 7 commemorates the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, by which the Spanish king Phillip IV transferred the territories of the County of Rosselló/Roussillon and parts of the…
