Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Aramaic on Foreign Correspondent
Last night’s Foreign Correspndent featured a short report about the Amaraic language of the village of Malula, Syria. The story goes that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and was spoken in a fairly large region of the Middle East, until the 7th and 8th centuries when Arabic spread with Islam. Aramaic speakers – both [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Aramaic,Film by jangari
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Indigenous Television Hits Sydney
Apparently as of today, National Indigenous TV (NITV) will be broadcast in the Sydney Metropolitan area on digital free-to-air TV on channel 40. I haven’t had a chance to see NITV yet, as last time I was in the Territory was prior to its launch. This was back when the only indigenous content on Australian [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Indigenous,Media by jangari
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The End of Anonymity
As I promised last week, I’ve managed to find a copy of the SBS World News report in which I appeared, that mentions and demonstrates the mobile phone dictionary – thanks to Jeremy who recorded it – and so I’ve put it up here. Just bear in mind that I had no idea that I [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Endangered Languages,Indigenous,Kaurna,Languages,Lexicography,Linguistics,Technology,Translation by jangari
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Not-very-Smart Cars, or Code Switching
This morning’s post at Language Log on code switching reminded me that I intended to write about an instance of code switching by a friend of mine that I was fortunate enough to witness. This friend is South African and her first language is Afrikaans, although she has been speaking Australian English for long enough [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Bilingualism,Language Acquisition,Languages,Linguistics,Psycholinguistics,Science by jangari
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Seeing with your tongue
Many of my friends, and possibly people I’ve met and conversed with, will have memories of me telling them that a blind person was once taught to see with their tongue. Needless to say, most of these people thought I was insane, and I could never find the paper that I read it from to [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Neurology,Science,Technology by jangari
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Note to self
When collecting field recordings, always, always begin each audio file with a little blurb mentioning the date, the location, who’s present, and what language is being researched. It’ll cost you about 10 seconds of each recording and you’ll sound like a bit of a tool repeating yourself, but you’ll save yourself hours of work years [...]
