Homepage improvements!

Quick spring-cleaning on sorosoro.org, with a greater access to videos as you enter our website. The section on the left now allows you to choose among Videos by language, Videos by topic or Conferences & interviews. A good reason to discover the ones you might have missed!

New videos

Newbies, like every week: our cycle on Aramaic languages continues with Father Yakup Aydin, priest of the Syriac Orthodox church of Antakya in France, on the names for bodyparts in Syriac!

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Blog

Off to New Brunswick this week. While the official languages act provides serious guaranties to the French speakers of the Canadian province, there is still a long way to go for the local indigenous languages nowadays facing an alarming situation.

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News

The Guardian publishes an article on Ayapaneco, or Noomte Oote, a language of Mexico with only two speakers left… who do not talk to each other.

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Evolutionist psychologist Quentin Atkinson brings his contribution to the theory of one human mother language, showing proof that it was born in southern and western Africa.

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Soropedia

4 new description sheets adding to our « Language Encyclopaedia » this week:

– Australia, two Pama-Nyungan languages: Bundjalung and Paakantyi

– South America: Kaingang, a Jê language of Brazil, and Yuracaré, an isolate language spoken in Bolivia.

And as always…

The word of the fortnight calling for as many translations as possible: EYE.

And an updated Soroquiz on our homepage…

A beautiful week to all of you,

The Sorosoro crew

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