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The Uralic or Uralian -even Finno-Samoyedic- languages are a small language family of the world spoken by approximately 25 million people – although containing 38 languages – predominantly in Northern Eurasia. Hungarian alone accounts for more than half of the family’s speakers. Second and third are Finnish and Estonian, respectively. Other significant Uralic languages areContinue reading “Celebrating Finno-Ugric vigour”

Super-Tongues are those very special languages in the world which possess core characteristics -from ideologies, grammatical tricks, to inspiring structures- that endow speakers with dramatically enhanced capabilities or strengths! This is a re-assessment, since there has surely been some shifts since the first “measurement” I did 2/3 years ago, which produced the following results… 10.Continue reading “The world’s top 10 most superior tongues”

Mongolian is not a fun language. Well, it could be, or it can be, as can any language, but the Mongolian people are honestly just of such a dark disposition, and they have an imperial history that is unfortunately soaked in the blood of the tens of millions of Eurasians they slaughtered in conquest (OkayContinue reading “Making Mongolian fun?”

(Idea from Kaixo Linguistik on Instagram.) I am… 🇲🇽 Estoy… 🇧🇷 Estou… 🐱 Estic… 🇫🇷 Je suis… 🇮🇹 Sono… 🇩🇪 Ich bin… 🇳🇱 Ik ben… 🇸🇪 Jag är… 🇨🇳 我… Wǒ… 🇸🇦 انا ana… happy 🇲🇽 feliz 🇧🇷 feliz 🐱 feliç 🇫🇷 heureux 🇮🇹 felice 🇩🇪 glücklich 🇳🇱 vrolijk 🇸🇪 lycklig 🇨🇳 高兴 gāoxìng 🇸🇦Continue reading “5 feelings in 11 languages”

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Previously: / Today, a pivotal global monarch was laid to rest. R.I.P. HRH Queen Elizabeth II. I simply cannot believe the time is upon us. Thank you for your service, and long may the King -your beloved son- reign. /

How CUTE is she?! Find @LittleDolma here on Instagram! I am desperate to find a platform to publicise the Buzz-Concept Project, in particular my work with Orientalesque philology in order to ease those mini smiles!!! Orientalesque people are super sensitive with super squishy neurology that is really open to interference but also really receptive toContinue reading “How cute…?”

Read more of my work with Ukraine here. Did you know that Russian and Ukrainian are actually very closely related languages? The reality being that, less than one millennium ago, they were one and the same language along with Belarusian: Old East Slavic / словеньскыи ꙗзыкъ / slovenĭskyi jazykŭ, used during the 10th-15th centuries byContinue reading “In Ukrainian…”

[ Mary Katrantzou SS20 “Wisdom Begins in Wonder” ] The acutely evocative, effervescent power of the Hellenic alphabet exists in contrast, or in complement, to the Depths of the Latin Alphabet – about which I have already composed a post. The Ancient Greeks are renowned for their wisdom and for their corresponsive academic and culturalContinue reading “The effervescent power of the Hellenic alphabet”

Previously: The treasured case system of Icelandic I have resorted to doing a lot of posts uniting linguistics/language and art, starting with: What can linguists learn from French art? and Words vs. Fauvism. Originally, I genuinely was interested in the intersection between the two domains as modes of expression, but now I’m really just milkingContinue reading “Ah, Iceland”