• Videos

Three new videos on our website this week: two songs in Mpongwe (a Myene dialect), and a performance on an Akele musical bow. Mpongwe and Akele are two Bantu languages.

• The word of the week

A new word in our primer section, with hope that many of you will their take turn adding infos in your own language!

• Linguistics for beginners

This April, we’re enhancing our website with a little linguistic handbook for beginners (coming soon in English). It is presented in alphabetical order, and should help out those of you who are stuck between numerical classifiers and evidentials…

This page will of course be subject to evolution, and meanwhile we’ll be glad to use your help should you be willing to contribute! On your marks…

• In English

New also on the English version of our website. Descriptive sheets on:

– Austronesian languages: Ajië, Arhâ, Arho, Cemuhî

– Mayan languages: Chontal, Chuj

– A Niger-Congo language: Bambara

• News

In our News section this week:

– A report on Rozenn Milin’s trip to India and the country’s fabulous linguistic diversity.

– An urgent call for papers for the conference on European minority languages to be held soon at the University of Indiana.

– A notice on the Latin Union conference regarding the “Presence, impact, and value of Romanic languages in the society of knowledge” to be held on Friday, April 30th.

• On our blog

– Rozenn Milin meets Indian scholar Ganesh Davy, who launched the Adivasy Academy project, an “Indigenous Academy”…

– Farewells to our webmaster Antoine Launey…

We’re grateful to all of those who shared their data and information: the Latin Union, Julie Auger, Claire Saillard, Claire Moyse…