Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Western Frisian 2 Jul 20172 Jul 2017 Western Frisian, also known simply as Frisian is spoken in the Dutch province Friesland, in the north of the country. There are approximately 470,000 speakers of the language. It is…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Zay 18 Jun 2017 Top photo credit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopia_adm_location_map.svg Zay is one of several languages spoken in Ethiopia. It is spoken by the Zay people who live on Gelilla and the other five islands and…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Ter Sami 11 Jun 201711 Jun 2017 Top photo credit: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZoyaGerasimovaNinaAfanasyevaInterview.jpg#mw-jump-to-license It is the most critically endangered living Sami language. As of 2010, only two speakers of the language remain - both elderly women. Therefore, it is…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Ingrian 4 Jun 20174 Jun 2017 The language is also referred to as Izhorian. The name 'Izhorian' comes from the fact that it is spoken by the Izhorians, the indigenous people of the Ingria region located…
Minority Languages… New Elfdalian Vocabulary Lists 31 May 20171 Jun 2017 It's been a few weeks since the last update to the vocabulary lists, but I hope the wait is worth it. The theme for this set of lists is Weather.…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Nganasan 28 May 201728 May 2017 Nganasan is a language spoken by the Nganasan people, who live on Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. According to UNESCO, there are 505 speakers of Nganasan. Nganasan belongs to the Samoyedic…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – East Frisian (Saterfrisian) 21 May 201721 May 2017 The language is not to be confused with East Frisian Low Saxon. East Frisian is a recognized minority language, whose remaining speakers originate in the Saterland region of Germany. Saterland…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Lule Sami 14 May 201714 May 2017 Top photo credit: By User:Eino81 - Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4587704 Lule Sami, like all other Sami languages, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is classified as part of the…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Inupiaq 7 May 20177 May 2017 Inupiaq is a macrolanguage which includes group of dialects belonging to the Aleut branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages. More specifically, it belongs to the Inuit group of languages.…
Language of the Week… Spotlight on Minority Languages – Enets 30 Apr 20171 May 2017 Enets belongs to the Uralic language branch. More specifically, Enets belongs to the Samoyedic group of languages. It is closely related to Nenets, another Samoyedic language. There are two distinct…
Polyglot in Progress 