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Cara, Drew, and Ed are back to do a deep dive into the the Native American language of Cree. They explore the rich linguistic heritage, cultural significance, and fascinating nuances of Cree, shedding light on a vital part of Indigenous culture.

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The Papers Discussed
Proto-Algonquian Stop Clusters in Cree-Montagnais by David H. Pentland
On the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Cree by Brian D. Joseph
Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree by William Lane, Atticus Harrigan, and Antti Arppe
Plains Cree pêyâhtikowêwin: The Ethic of Talking Softly by Jeffrey Muehlbauer

On this episode of Linguistics Everyday, Ed, Cara, and Drew discuss the Manchu language, the Jurchen people, and a little bit about the History of China. Contact us at @LinguisticsEver or email us at LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com 

Some papers:

• Language death and language revivalism The case of Manchu by Daniel Kane

• The Manchu Academy of Beijing by Laura E. Hess

• Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Compositions and Their Verse-Technique by Giovanni Stary

• Some Observations on a Rubbing of a 17th—Century Inscription in Uighur-Mongolian Script with Elements of Manchu Script and Orthography by Hsiao Su-yin

• The Legitimization of the Qing Dynasty by Piero Corradini

Cara and Ed along with special guest, Emily Wheeler of Film Inquiry, discuss New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto to talk about Bollywood, Dizi, K-Pop, and the shifting of soft power from America to the rest of the world. We also discuss the magical power of SRK, Turkish Soap Operas and K-Pop groups like NCT 127.

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https://www.filminquiry.com/silly-brilliance-orlando/

https://bookshop.org/books/new-kings-of-the-world-dispatches-from-bollywood-dizi-and-k-pop/9781733623704

In episode 7, Cara and Ed discuss the value of an official language in the modern nation state, how language influences identity and what the language situation is in South Sudan, from Juba Arabic to English and a bit of Swahili.

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South Sudan Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fjG22fCrE

Peace in South Sudan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lXeyYuOnk

South Sudan Travelogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH7UyI4mHM

Article on Language Policy in South Sudan
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/14/for-south-sudan-declaring-independence-from-arabic-is-not-so-easy-language-politics-juba-khartoum-english/

Cara and Ed gather on this minisode to celebrate a huge milestone for the podcast: 500 downloads! We discuss the research of Gretchen McCulloch about emojis as language and a little bit about the experiment that was Emoji Dick (an Emoji translation re-telling of Moby Dick). We also discuss how we use emojis in our day to day lives.

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References:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62584/will-we-all-speak-emoji-language-couple-years

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-and-what-language-death-actually-looks-like/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ybyoaz9iw

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because

In Episode 5, Cara and Ed, along with guest Jen, discuss A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick. We discuss the death of the Tayap language as well as the people of the village of Gapun.

https://bookshop.org/books/a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-of-life-came-to-an-end-in-papua-new-guinea-9781643750477/9781616209049

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Cara and Ed gather to discuss the only truly revitalized language, Hebrew. From its 3000 BC roots to modern day, the language had been on a rollercoaster. We discuss how it's been influenced by Arabic throughout its history and how Biblical Hebrew is different from Modern Hebrew.

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References

Langfocus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70jb2c8Qtsk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfThdgT6GSk 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BByig02vJWM 

Unpacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiiad9fO-g

A Brief History of Modern Hebrew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChcua1MLDg 

https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/reviving-hebrew-persian-ancient-languages-eliezer-ben-yehuda-manekji-limji-hataria/

https://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/Freeburg%2C%20Elizabeth%20-%20Senior%20Essay.pdf

Ed and Cara discuss what is Language Death. With a language dying about every two weeks, preserving and recording these languages is of the utmost importance. We discuss different ways languages die (Gradual Language Death, Bottom-to-Top Language Death, Sudden Language Death and Radical Language Death). We also discuss dialect stigmatism and standardization in France.

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References:

Wikitongues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18

Langfocus on Language Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk

France 24 Video on French Dialect Diversity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5eq6dOPok

Language Magazine article on Mandarin language education:
https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/

Afrikaans coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolLuO9hM5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs

Ed and Cara take a deep dive into the world of English Based Creoles from the Carribean, Africa and the Pacific like: Hawaiian Pidgin to Kreyol to Jamaican Patois to Singlish to Manglish and many more!

How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8

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@carajoell
linguisticseveryday@gmail.com

Ed and Cara introduce you to the exciting world of creole languages! We discuss how a pidgin becomes a creoles, what  makes a creole a creole to begin with as well as touching on the world's many creoles like Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Malaysian Creole and Juba Arabic.

How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8

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@edwardgiordano
@carajoell