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Attempts to preserve Indigenous Languages in the US

“Of the 115 Indigenous language spoken in the United States, only two are healthy. Cherokee writer Rebecca Nagle writes for High Country News about the language extinction crisis the US currently faces—and the federal government’s insufficient efforts to preserve the … Continue reading

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A standardized writing system for Inuktitut

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-inuit-combine-nine-different-scripts-for-writing-inuktitut-into-one-2/

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The value of a philological education: Nazi euphemisms and metaphors decoded

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/books/holocaust-nazi-archive.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Indigenous languages used in WWII for coded messages

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/obituaries/louis-levi-oakes-dies.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Human speech and evolving anatomy eons ago

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/eaav3218

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England tried to set up a language academy in the 18th century. France succeeded: here’s its legacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/world/europe/academie-francaise-france-deadlock.html

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Did women illuminate medieval manuscripts?

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/gemstone-crystals-found-in-teeth-of-11th-century-nun-sheds-light-on-womens-role-in-creating-medieval-religious-texts

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New words in the Scrabble Dictionary.

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Mistranslation in world affairs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/why-mistranslation-matters.html

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Gender-neutral terms for God

https://theconversation.com/what-the-early-church-thought-about-gods-gender-100077

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