This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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The “Early Indo-European Languages Online” site at the A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language and Culture, Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (what a mouthful) has now added little Gothic and Hittite courses to the already abundant materials they offered. For some reason the Gothic course isn’t linked to from the main [...]
“The Udmurt language and the culture of the Udmurts”, a course organized by the Udmurt State University’s Faculty of Udmurt Philology, will be held in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russian Federation from July 27 to August 16, 2006. More information and a registration form in English is available (PDF). It starts a week after the end of [...]
There’s no guarantee that it won’t be cancelled again for political or other reasons, or that registrants will even get a visa (one notable friend of the Mari hasn’t recently), but a Summer School in Mari Language and Culture is planned to place in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia, from the 2nd until the 19th of July this [...]