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Garry Knight<p>The US island that speaks Elizabethan English</p><p>'Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American'</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EndangeredLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20190</span><span class="invisible">623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Conversation: How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes. “Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from the radio. Some of us made home recordings with our sibling and grandparents – precious childhood snippets. And a few of us even have recordings from that time we travelled to a village in Vanuatu, some 40 years […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/the-conversation-how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/14/the-conversation-how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes/</a></p>
Bogi Takács<p>Very interesting: machine translation among 14 Finno-Ugric languages, including several endangered <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> languages alongside the ones with more speakers like Hungarian or Finnish. Developed in Estonia!</p><p><a href="https://translate.ut.ee/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">translate.ut.ee/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Press release here:</p><p><a href="https://estonianworld.com/technology/tartu-universitys-machine-translation-engine-now-translates-23-finno-ugric-languages/?fbclid=IwAR0qw5G6YGNuGaP8o8PUKfVKENa-zpDyTAx7ypCKWiPxsg9kqQzXdmnpWQ8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">estonianworld.com/technology/t</span><span class="invisible">artu-universitys-machine-translation-engine-now-translates-23-finno-ugric-languages/?fbclid=IwAR0qw5G6YGNuGaP8o8PUKfVKENa-zpDyTAx7ypCKWiPxsg9kqQzXdmnpWQ8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/FinnoUgric" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FinnoUgric</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MachineTranslation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MachineTranslation</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Translation</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/EndangeredLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EndangeredLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/magyar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>magyar</span></a></p>