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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Get an introduction to Ket: one of the world's 6,000 languages you're highly unlikely to hear about beyond Siberia, where it's spoken by just several hundred people (as compared to, say, the 125 million who speak Japanese). It's a fascinating look at just how complex even the tiniest of languages can be.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mama" and "papa" are some of the first words spoken in a majority of the world's languages. Why these first words and not others? As you explore this intriguing subject, you'll also probe some of the theories behind how language starts (involving everything from anatomy to music to mimicked animal calls).
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor McWhorter provides a closer look at slang and its place in language. How did English slang evolve over the centuries, and why does it keep changing? Why do we seem to be using it now more than ever? And what does texting say about the importance of slang today?
144) Altar of Fire
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There's a lot to learn about language from cartoons. In this episode, find out how depictions of older people in American cartoons used to reflect the distinction between how people speak in the country versus the city. Also, hear this idea at work through a 1960s study about local accents on Martha's Vineyard.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's easy to miss just how deeply peculiar an alphabet is. It provides a transcription of language based not on pictures but written representations of sounds. Here, Professor McWhorter takes you back to ancient Greece on an investigation of how the alphabet was invented and (slowly) settled into our consciousness.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What can hobbits teach us about the actual science involved in linguistics? Find out in this eye-opening episode that introduces you to Homo floresiensis, "little people," on the island of Flores, with their own strangely simplified language that some scientists believe was spoken until just a few centuries ago.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the world of pidgin languages: handy linguistic tools that consist of a few hundred words with little grammar. Focus on the Native American Pidgin English that emerged in the 1600s and helped bridge basic communication gaps (without relying on sign language) between English speakers and Native Americans.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Take a quick trip to southern Africa on an investigation of one of a whole group of click languages called the Khoi-San family that could very well be one of Earth's first languages. Then, follow the odd story of the "death" of a language that actually isn't dying at all: Yiddish.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the world of Jamaican patois, which developed among African slaves in the 1600s as they quickly adopted English. You'll discover that languages vary not just in how they're put together, but according to diverse factors such as socioeconomics and the audience one is speaking to.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
See how Maltese, the only Arabic language variety spoken within the European Union, reflects the idea that visual maps of languages aren't always as clear-cut as they seem. In fact, as Professor McWhorter reveals, the classification of languages and dialects can be quite frustrating, and even impossible.
152) Mother Tongue
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary short chronicles the first time a film has been translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil, the native language of one of the Guatemalan indigenous groups that were targeted by State-sponsored genocide in 1982-83. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, a young emerging leader from the Ixil community and the coordinator of the translation project, the film brings to light the ongoing work to preserve collective memory in Guatemala,...
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