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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This article from the Bashkir Mari newspaper Čolman is inspiring not only because it talks of a young person who continues using the Mari language, but also because it shows that at least some people still enjoy chess and belles lettres, even as intellectual life has greatly declined among ex-Soviet youth. Башкир кугыжаныш университетын Нефтекамск [...]
CNN featured yesterday an article about the Liet International song competition, where contestants sing in European minority languages. Since being established in Friesland in 2002, Liet International has become a hub of the minority language music scene. If that sounds niche, it’s worth noting that there are estimated to be almost 50 million minority or [...]
Conference proceedings are often interesting in that their lighter editorial control allows some odd ideas in. When I encountered this paper in the fourth volume of the papers from the Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum held in Turku in 1980, I wondered if the poor fellow presenting it was laughed out of the room. Otto J. [...]