Linguistics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Linguistics – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Learning Klingon or Esperanto: What Invented Languages Can Teach Us https://brewminate.com/learning-klingon-or-esperanto-what-invented-languages-can-teach-us/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:09:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=167325 NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries of

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]]> What Americans Can Learn from Other Cultures about the Language of Gratitude https://brewminate.com/what-americans-can-learn-from-other-cultures-about-the-language-of-gratitude/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:08:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=167593 Cultures around the world say ‘thank you’ in many different ways. Introduction Families and friends traditionally gather to

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]]> Language Evolution and Human History: What a Difference a Date Makes https://brewminate.com/language-evolution-and-human-history-what-a-difference-a-date-makes/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:37:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=165685 Languages, like genes, are also ‘documents of history’. Abstract Historical inference is at its most powerful when independent

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]]> The Inferiority Complex That Put Silent Letters in English Spelling https://brewminate.com/the-inferiority-complex-that-put-silent-letters-in-english-spelling/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:36:51 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=165719 After the Norman invasion of 1066, English went into decline as a written language. English is full of

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]]> Proto-Languages: Ancestral Trees with Numerous Descendant Branches https://brewminate.com/proto-languages-ancestral-trees-with-numerous-descendant-branches/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:17:21 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157969 A proto-language is a linguistic reconstruction formulated by applying the comparative method to a group of languages featuring

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]]> Extinct Languages: Not Just ‘Dead’ but Truly Gone https://brewminate.com/extinct-languages-not-just-dead-but-truly-gone/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:17:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157959 As of the 2000s, a total of roughly 7,000 natively spoken languages existed worldwide. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A.

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]]> Talk to Me: The Origins and Evolution of Speech https://brewminate.com/talk-to-me-the-origins-and-evolution-of-speech/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:16:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=157306 Research into the development of human language. By Matt Phillips Introduction Picture a human being before the dawn

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]]> The Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet and the Siloam Inscription https://brewminate.com/the-paleo-hebrew-alphabet-and-the-siloam-inscription/ Fri, 07 May 2021 18:21:42 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=153541 The inscription hence records the construction of the tunnel in ancient Jerusalem. Introduction The Siloam inscription or Shiloah inscripti, known as KAI 189,

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]]> Grammar: From the Ancient Greeks to the Middle Ages https://brewminate.com/grammar-from-the-ancient-greeks-to-the-middle-ages/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:23:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=151132 English sentence structure or grammar has been extraordinarily impacted by the ancient Greek and Latin models. By Dr.

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]]> Neanderthals Could Speak and Process Spoken Communication https://brewminate.com/neanderthals-could-speak-and-process-spoken-communication/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:29:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=148807 Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech. When the ancestors of anatomically-modern non-Africans came out

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