Here are some web news stories pertaining to language.
Talk to the animals? Study shows some human understanding of creatures’ sounds
Teacher refuses to teach grammar, claiming it is part of white supremacy
One of the oldest written sentences on record blasts hair and beard lice
A 4,000-Year-Old Writing System That Finally Makes Sense To Scholars
Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data
Students learn Cherokee language, culture at Kansas Public Schools
Are Women Really Better At Words? The Science Answer | Science 2.0 (science20.com)
Chimps show off their ‘signature’ drum beats – BBC News
DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch
The Quiet Girl: how a bilingual childhood led to a breakout Irish language film
Dyslexia Affects Visual Processing Beyond Just Reading
Marvel’s Eternals deaf superhero causes massive spike in sign language interest
OSU offers Oklahoma’s first American Sign Language major
Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa
Bilingual employees earn more money than those who speak one language | Financial Post
The debate over language on the (political) left
Lorde Drops Maori-Language Album Of ‘Solar Power’ Songs : NPR
Azure AI empowers organizations to serve users in more than 100 languages
‘Okciyapi’ celebrates Dakota language and brings some healing
Lummi Nation chairman talks culture, language and leading the Tribe through COVID
Netflix’s Squid Game could be inspiring a wave of Korean language learning
Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models
Minneapolis schools launch Somali language program for native speakers
Yurok people see victory in decades-long effort to revive language
Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language (Wukchumni) From Extinction, Dies at 87
The fight to save Hawaii Sign Language from extinction
A Language Bill Deepens a Culture Clash in Quebec
The Power of Storytelling: Reflections on Deaf Culture and American Sign Language
Botswana to introduce 11 local languages in schools by 2022
Spend All Day With This Interactive Map Of NYC’s Astounding Linguistic Diversity
How TikTok creates its automatic subtitles (spoiler alert: they exploit workers)
Translators, experts weigh in on ‘Squid Game’ subtitle debate
Medicinal plant knowledge linked to threatened Indigenous languages
Austin, Travis County launch emergency alert system with American Sign Language
What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human Life
Why’s it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to make it into English cookbooks?
We speak a lot of languages in Canada — elections should reflect our diversity
The Indo-Caribbean Podcast Exploring History, Linguistics and Culture: The Cutlass
Hispanic and Latino Voices: Exploring Ethnicity, Culture and Identity | Race and Culture
Make English Truly a World Language
Dyslexia works differently than we thought
Speaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences
Deaf Infants’ Gaze Behavior More Advanced Than That of Hearing Infants
The Difficulties of Being a Parent’s Translator
These African Animators are saving their languages with cartoons
The simple words that save lives
How the limits of the mind shape human language
Bolivia Works to Value Indigenous Languages
Want to expand your toddler’s vocabulary? Find another child
People Who Always Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Study Finds
Indigenous Children Learn Best in Their Own Languages
Do You Speak My Language? You Should
What’s in a Brand Name: the Sounds of Persuasion
Differences In Deaf Babies’ Cognitive Development Begin Earlier In Life
How bad translation by court interpreters can turn misunderstanding into injustice
Haiti’s “linguistic apartheid” violates children’s rights and hampers development
The Guarani Language Has Its First Dictionary in Paraguay
When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind
The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’
‘There are no words’: As coronavirus kills Indigenous elders, endangered languages face extinction
Babies Prefer the Sounds of Other Babies to the Cooing of Their Parents
A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From
How the limits of the mind shape human language
Deaf Infants’ Gaze Behavior More Advanced Than That of Hearing Infants
In Hew New Memoir, Cristela Alonzo Talks About the Difficulties of Being Her Mom’s Translator
The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
The simple words that save lives
Dyslexia Doesn’t Work the Way We Thought It Did
Dog Brains Reveal How Much Human Language They Actually Understand