by Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk Did you happen to miss out on the “Legendary Beasts” exhibition at the Louvre-Lens, which ended on 22 January 2024? As a consolation, here are some specimens originating in Mediaeval Latin....
by Melinda Fodor Once upon a time, somewhere in northern East India, within an ancient Buddhist community, the first natural “Esperanto” language, Pali, emerged. Its development was certainly not the result of artificial, deliberate,...
by Alexandre François With about 500 languages, the Oceanic family spreads out across the vast Pacific Ocean. Three thousand years ago, its myriad islands and atolls began to be explored and settled by Austronesian...
by Julieta Rotaru Although acknowledged, notably by nineteenth-century French historiography, as a form of social freedom deprivation for the “last slaves in the heart of Europe” (Regnault 1855: 329), Roma slavery is not anchored...
by Hélène Gérardin Who doesn’t recall their first grammar lessons and the enchantment of the terms – “subject”, “object”, “verb” – heard the earliest classes, never to escape the ears of language and grammar...
