Daily Archives: April 27, 2017

The Icelandic language, with a long history and a 1000-year written tradition, may be threatened in today’s world: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/europe/iceland-icelandic-language-linguistics.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

Frisian, the closest relative to English, spoken in Friesland (a province of the Netherlands), is still being spoken. A speaker of Modern English will not be able to understand it, but speakers of Old English and Old Frisian could have … Continue reading →

https://theconversation.com/anumeric-people-what-happens-when-a-language-has-no-words-for-numbers-75828