06/04/2018–13/04/2018 Headlines Archaeologists in Sudan have found the world’s largest collection of Meroitic stone inscriptions. The Meroitic writing system, used by the ancient kingdom of Meroe (7th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.) is the oldest in the sub-Saharan…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 30/03/2018–06/04/2018 Headlines The Canadian National Film Board has launched an Indigenous Cinema website with more than 200 films directed by indigenous people available for streaming! The repository contains short-…

16/03/2018–23/03/2018 Headlines To save their native languages, lawmakers in Alaska have declared that Alaska is facing a linguistic emergency. A resolution has been passed for the commitment of resources to save “Alaska’s 20 indigenous languages”. The resolution is a response to…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 02/03/2018–16/03/2018 Headlines We predict the names of unfamiliar objects even before we learn those names. This was found by psychologists at the University of Sussex who presented adult research participants…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight.  16/02/2018–02/03/2018 Headlines International Mother Language Day was celebrated on 21st February. What does your mother language mean to you? Read what the directors of Language Landscape have to say…

02/02/2018–09/02/2018 Headlines The Episcopal church in the Diocese of Washington, D.C. passed a groundbreaking resolution last week to stop using masculine pronouns and gendered language to refer to God. Per the resolution’s drafters, “Over the centuries our language and our understanding…

This week’s round up compiles language news from the last fortnight. 19/01/2018–02/02/2018 Headlines An increasing Latino population in the US has led to the perception that Spanish will become the United States’ most dominant language. Linguist Philip Carter, however, points…

12/01/2018–19/01/2018 Headlines Registration for a new Lexicom course on 11–15 September 2018 in digital lexicography and lexical computing in Cambridge is now open! Learners will be entitled to one year’s access to Sketch Engine. Information on the contents of the course…

05/01/2018–12/01/2018 Headlines If you’ve been guessing it all along, yes, you’re right, fake news has been voted as the 2017 Word of the Year. Voters were members of the American Dialect Society, which comprised “lexicographers, etymologists, grammarians, historians, researchers, writers,…

29/12/2017–05/01/2018 Headlines Registration for The Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2018 in Gainsville, Florida is now open! From 18 June–20 July 2018, connect with academics, students, linguists, and indigenous language members to discuss community-based language documentation and revitalisation! Very exciting…

22/12/2017–29/12/2017 Headlines It is often said that a community of speakers is the lifeblood of a language. This could not be truer for Taushiro, a tribal language hidden in “the jungles of the Amazon basin in Peru”, and which now…

15/12/2017–22/12/2017 Headlines In an effort to combat bullying and discrimination, an increasing number of British schools are adopting gender-neutral language and policies. These include more liberal uniform policies and the use of non-gendered terms such as “pupils” rather than “boys…