A student discovers just how much he has to learn about comparative linguistics. Emphasis on the Indo-European and Finno-Ugrian/Uralic languages with frequent asides into language rights and language protection.
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CNN featured yesterday an article about the Liet International song competition, where contestants sing in European minority languages.
Since being established in Friesland in 2002, Liet International has become a hub of the minority language music...
Conference proceedings are often interesting in that their lighter editorial control allows some odd ideas in. When I encountered this paper in the fourth volume of the papers from the Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum held in Turku...
The Chuvash branch of Turkic actually preserved some lexical items common to the whole Turkic family, but you’d never guess it from looking at modern Chuvash. Here the early Chuvash loans into Hungarian prove essential for knowing the whole history of...
A few weeks ago the online Mari-language newspaper Čolman published an article which gives a little view of life in a Mari village in the Republic of Bašqortostan. The article was entertaining enough, but it left me feeling a little depressed. Even...
