Just took a look! The Cherokee course seems to be rather limited in scope. I'd hope that's due to a choice of priorities for native speakers rather than a lack of interest to elaborate the course by Mango, but it's still only two chapters after 4(?) years. Though it is free without the subscription.
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www.nps.gov/edis/learn/h...
www.gutenberg.org/files/30112/...
www.cylinder.de/guide_blue-a...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
May our silly traditions live on and on.
And a guid new year!
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Finally, this one's just a personal favorite of mine. Hope you enjoy!
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Eventually, the technology would be replaced by the higher-fidelity and very much less-destructible material of plastic, a novel invention at the time!
Below is a recording of Frank C. Stanley's performance of the song from 1910.
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150 years ago! Which is what one might very appropriately call 'auld lang syne.'
(Fun fact: the melody was once adopted as the national anthem of Korea)
This is the earliest recording we have of the Hogmanay (new year's eve) classic, 100 years before my own birth!
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The Graphophone was the invention of Volta Laboratory, helmed by the voice above's son, Graham. It's an improvement on Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph of 1877, itself inspired by Graham Bell's telephone.
Here's the recording process below.
(Graham Bell & Edison would share the patent.)
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Happy new year, everyone!
As we reflect on the silly things we all did this past year, I'd like to share this audio recording from 1881 (!!) of Alexander Melville Bell.
[ captioned by the Smithsonian like an adult swim bump ]
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Hey! I'm back. With finals and the holidays I decided to take a break for a bit from social media. I hope everyone's well, and I'm looking forward to getting reacquainted with the community!
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Screenshot of subject of chart on Wikipedia. Only country's row visible is Germany. Every box it has under the column headings are green and read "Free at state universities." The columns above read as follows "State→Local language-taught bachelor's and master's degrees tuition fees (per year) for international students→English-taught bachelor's and master's degrees tuition fees (per year) for international students→Ph.D. degrees tuition fees for international students→Ph.D. degrees tuition fees for EEA students." Its URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#Countries
Thanks for sharing!
I also wonder what differences one might find, say, between the rate of AI use in student writing in the USA vs Germany...for no obvious reasons...
(Although I would hazard a guess that economic incentives post-graduation would also then play some factor as well.)
Amazing, thanks!
Ugh! Just listen to this
definitely a gives-me-chills-every-time type thing for me lol
Of course!
I'm taking PhonPhon this semester, and this would probably be biting off more than I can chew (the paper's just a squib). But I'm also taking Cherokee & think it'd be cool to analyze Agalisiga's album "Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started in the Woods)." I've also become a huge fan tbh.
Thank you!
I think "embodied" may be a loaded term here. But to be clear, I don't typically buy (I might start making things up now) strictly deterministic rationales for much of anything*, but I definitely see there being influence.
*excepting like, "this is a typical guitar, so it can't sound like a flute"
Hey, y'all!
Anyone have any recommendations for work related to (or thoughts on) how language may be embodied in a culture's music?—e.g., pitch in music of cultures w/tonal languages, prosody's relation to melismatic/syllabic singing + any other cool stuff I've not thought of before?
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Lefler, Lisa J., and Thomas N. Belt. Sounds of Tohi : Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia, University of Alabama Press, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.
A photo of a page of a book: "Chapter One TOHI ( ᏙᎯ )" "Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is." "—Wendell Berry" "Tohi (pronounced tow hee) is the Kituwah word for health. This word’s popular use was revived after a meeting of elders and clinicians in Cherokee several years ago. Thomas N. Belt was asked to help translate for the Cherokee- language speakers there, most of whom were elders, and he explained for the majority of attendees who were not Cherokee speakers what tohi meant. Immediately thereafter, the health and medical community there began to use the term often, and it has become fairly commonly used as a substitute for the English word “health.” Revitalizing Cherokee language is always a step in the right direction, including this example, but, unfortunately, substituting a Cherokee word for an English word isn’t sufficient for fully realizing the importance of the language. In Tom’s words, language is medicine. It is health. Tom elaborates: There is a disconnect between providers and people who need help. Health becomes dispensary. In other words, come to me and I’ll give you something. This thing is what you need, not me but this thing. The help is dispensing what you need. That becomes a business. In our way, the way to illustrate healing is, you need a house, right? I have tools, I have some things that you can use to build that house with and you don’t have that right now. So, I’m just not going to give you those tools, that material. You and I are going to build this house. We’re going to be in it together. I’m going to do just as much work as you are. And in doing that you and I become connected, we depend on each other, we understand the importance of what"
"we’re doing, the things we have, and in the end then we complete this structure, and you can live in it and you’ll be safe. But we did this together. Without that, if I just tossed the stuff out there, you may never get it done without anybody helping. You won’t be safe. If there’s no one there to help you, you won’t achieve that healing and things won’t ever get better unless I’m involved in it. It makes the effort stronger, more effective . . . all those things that are attributed to doing something right, to being successful. It’s putting things in the right order. When you say you need my help, when you come to me for help, or when you go to one of those people for help, they will join you in that effort. They won’t take on that thing without you. That house isn’t for me, it’s for you, but I’ll do everything I can to help. We’ll get it done. It’s the best way to do it. Wouldn’t you consider that the most scientific, or logical, way to do it? Rather than being just a dispensary source, you become an engaged participant in the healing process. That is the way we looked at the health aspect of people, we all had to help. We’ve talked about how sometimes healers had to bring in other healers to help. They understood the importance of communal work. They didn’t overlook the fact that the more hands helping was better than trying to do something yourself. Unfortunately, there are some who do for self- aggrandizement or for people to take pity, or for ego, and it serves no purpose. We have to understand that it takes everybody. To try to do something yourself is not duyuk’dv’i ( ᏚᏳᎪᏛᎢ , the right or correct path)."
And I'd wish everyone the chance to read these words.
I should be so grateful.
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But you should watch this memorial service.
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I wrote a dozen-post-long thread, and I accidentally deleted it.
It was about loss and mourning, and
language and community, and
respect and responsibility, and
life and love and hope,
Past Present Future
and all of it.
And so I think it's for the best that it's gone.
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A collection of Starter Packs related to languages, language learning, polyglots, linguistics, multilingualism and everything in between.
If you are passionate about languages or just curious to explore, this is the space for you!
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DMs are now open for everyone, oops!
Plz, reach out just to chat or for anything else, including research/topic recs! I also welcome (appropriate & relevant) self-advertisement. Prepare for ADHD response times tho..
Critique's welcome anywhere; just don't be a jackass unless I've earned it lol :?
f/ wôpanâak & Montauk journalist, @ameliaschafer.bsky.social: "'They’re ready to go home': Few answers at school gravesite."
I whole-heartedly recommend falling down the rabbit hole of her ICT bylines (They're unfailingly incredible, from what I've seen so far.) And give her a follow here!
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Content Warning: child killing, indigenous genocide, residential schooling
I am drafting a series on this and related topics (which, IMO, I'd necessarily pair with discussions of individual and communal self-empowerment). But I do think it is important to share this article now.
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Cover of the "Strand Signed Edition" of "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York" by Ross Perlin. Below the text is an artistic depiction of New York City. Above the text is a blurb which reads, "'Joyful, exciting...a celebration of one city and all humanity. You should all read it.'—Rebecca Solnit."
Each locality is unique, but these are global phenomena.
Finally, I do highly recommend reading the recently-published "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York" by Endangered Language Alliance co-director, Dr. Ross Perlin. (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
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That's in part what urged the creation of the ELA—as it exists at a profound nexus of urbanization, global migration, language, & culture.
I'll defer to them to explain why the hard work they do is so vitally important.
But it's also very important to note: this ain't just happening in NYC!
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Unfortunately, the pressures that lead to migration often coincide with the pressures imposed on minority languages by more culturally-dominant ones.
Therefore, a language can have a dozen speakers living in New York City, but just a handful more living "back home."
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10% of the world's languages are spoken in New York City. This means the Big Apple is home to well-over 600 different languages!
The wonderful folks at the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA) made an interactive map where you can explore this incredible diversity! Check it out!
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