White man who speaks in many dark tongues

Article Abstract:

Professor Bob Dixon is studying 250 Aboriginal languages at the Australia National University Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. Although he is due to move to La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Dixon is able to speak five of the languages. In three of the languages he is the only person alive who is still able to speak the language. Dixon suggests the 250 languages were derived as a group of people from Southeast Asia moved throughout Australia, some 40,000-50,000 years ago, each group developing their own language.

Behavior, Australian aborigines, Aboriginal Australians, Linguists, Dixon, Bob

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Fragile voices, forbidden tongues

Article Abstract:

The former east Germany began to admit many western terms, particularly those related to the economy into its terminology in the 1960's. As the revolution of 1989 began, many terms used in the east began to change their meaning or equate to western ideas. Terms such as 'unemployment' were hard for eastern Germans to assimilate as it had not existed officially before reunification. There is also contention as to whether the country was united or reunited, the debate is expected to continue indefinitely.

Germany

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Tongues tied

Article Abstract:

Linguistics experts, meeting at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights at Barcelona University, Spain, signed a document, passed to a Unesco representative, which should eventually lead to a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights. The new Unesco director is a Spanish Catalan, Federico Garcia Mayo, who is sympathetic to language matters. Spain has its own language rights code, which functions reasonably well and has taken away prejudice and bitterness.

Laws, regulations and rules, International aspects, Human rights

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