Words R Us

Guess language extinction isn't necessarily final? Check out this project to resurrect Tunican...

shows how human migration patterns established by dna tests mirror the language-reconstruction efforts of linguists

interactive language detective activity for PIE

excellent explanations

mom in many languages

nice map

good maps, willing to permit reproduction for classroom use

"Frank said, "all of that leaves open the question of whether language is really the only way to represent numbers." Mental Abacus, or MA, suggests the answer is no. It advises practitioners to visualize a 400-year-old style of abacus known as a soroban. Students often flick their fingers when they calculate, miming the movement of abacus beads."

"Herrera also discovered teens in the Phillippines and Mexico who think it's "cool" to send text messages in regional endangered languages like Kapampangan and Huave."

Love this!~

"The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. It was created at Brigham Young University in 2008, and it is now used by tens of thousands of users every month (linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers). ... The corpus contains more than 425 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts."