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....
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...
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,...
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....
