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Prakrit: A Literary Trill with Multiple Meanings

by Melinda Fodor Prakrit is a kind of Cinderella among the classical languages of India. Initially a humble language of ordinary communication, it was considered a collection of “incorrect” dialects by the Sanskrit grammarians....

I Am a Concrete Koori

In the second video of the series, we are introducing Konstantina (Kate Constantine), an aboriginal artist of the Eora Nation, from around Sydney, Australie. Konstantina speaks Gadigal, one of Australia’s indigenous languages, which belongs...

Pali: The Archaic Esperanto of Theravāda Buddhism

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,...

The 2023 Speech Datathon: an overview

The 2023 edition of the “Speech Datathon”, a workshop for speech data archiving, took place from Monday November 13 to Tuesday November 14, 2023 in the DataLab spaces of the Bibliothèque nationale de France....