Tagged “linguistics”
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slackprop.wordpress.com
Science
On Geek Versus Nerd
A machine-learning researcher uses Twitter data to chart which words lean geek and which lean nerd, with a scatter plot…
Open Language Archives Community
A network of digital archives cataloguing language documentation and linguistic field data contributed by researchers ar…
PHOIBLE
A large cross-linguistic database of phonological inventories, letting researchers and the curious browse the sound syst…
Pona.la
A hub for Toki Pona, the minimalist constructed language built on about 130 words, collecting learning resources and com…
Positive Lexicography Project
An academic-curated index of untranslatable words related to wellbeing and positive emotion, gathered from languages aro…
quikscript.net
An enthusiast's home for Quikscript, the 1950s phonetic alphabet for English by Kingsley Read, with sample text, the ori…
Rejected Icelandic Female Names
A list of girls' names rejected by Iceland's official naming committee, a curious look at how a country decides which na…
stancarey.wordpress.com
Education
Sentence first
Stan Carey's long-running blog about the English language: usage myths, odd words, slang, grammar debates and collection…
sentencefirst.wordpress.com
Education
Sentence First
An Irish linguist's blog roundup of language links, dialect notes, and wordplay observations published regularly since 2…
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Education
Separated by a Common Language
A linguist's blog dissecting the differences between British and American English, one word or expression at a time, wit…
SignWriting
The home of an international writing system for sign languages, letting deaf communities read and write their own visual…
SIL International
A global organization's site documenting minority and endangered languages worldwide, with free tools, fonts, and lingui…
Sinosplice
A blog about Mandarin Chinese that tackles key linguistic and cultural issues, with practical insights for anyone learni…
Square Theory
A delightful essay born in a crossword Discord server on why some wordplay clues and puns feel so satisfying, with a sim…
stronglang.wordpress.com
Education
Strong Language
A group blog by linguists devoted to the serious linguistic study of swearing, taboo vocabulary, and profanity across la…
Superlinguo
A blog about language and linguistics by Lauren Gawne, with accessible posts on how people talk, how words work and what…
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
A tour of English words that turn out to be secret relatives, tracing pairs with wildly different meanings back to the s…
Talking Dictionaries
An index of online talking dictionaries for endangered languages, where speaker recordings let you hear words and phrase…
The Archives of Trevosa
A puzzle game about decoding a language: translate terms from a received signal to untangle the history of a secret king…
The Atlas of Missing Feelings
An atlas of 234 words from 67 languages that name emotions English has no word for, arranged as a browsable wheel with m…
The Ideophone
A language blog on ideophones, vivid sensory words, and iconicity, with posts on how sound and meaning connect across th…
The Language Gulper
An enthusiast site profiling the grammar, phonology, and history of languages from around the world in detailed referenc…
The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude
An essay on the words that do the heavy lifting in Claude's writing, looking at which vocabulary choices shape the recog…
The Pop vs. Soda Page
A long-running set of maps showing where in the United States people say pop, soda or coke, built from visitor votes and…
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