This post is inspired by my lovely vacation in Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde). I originally planned to go to Portugal, but due to some last-minute events, I had to change the destination, and quite unexpectedly I ended up all the way in the homeland of Cesaria Evora. The moment I got to the hotelContinueContinue reading “Kriolu – the oldest creole language in the world”
Category Archives: Multilingualism
Do Eskimos really have 400 words for snow?
Fact or myth? The claim that Eskimos have an unusually large number of words for “snow” was first loosely attributed to the work of anthropologist Franz Boas. It was then promoted by Benjamin Lee Whorf and became a flagship example to support his controversial linguistic-relativity hypothesis (also known as “Whorfianism”). This hypothesis posits that aContinueContinue reading “Do Eskimos really have 400 words for snow?”
Not so obvious benefits of multilingualism
I couldn’t agree more. Being able to compare two or more language systems allows for a wider perspective on the workings of language: ✔How are particular languages built? ✔How does grammar work and how does it differ across languages? ✔What are the origins of words? ✔What works better or worse in particular languages, in termsContinueContinue reading “Not so obvious benefits of multilingualism”
How does globalisation impact language dynamics?
The world today is a global village. Globalisation as a concept and phenomenon has become part of our life. As a term, globalisation has settled in different languages across the world and become a universal word for: the speedup of movements and exchanges (of human beings, goods, and services, capital, technologies or cultural practices) allContinueContinue reading “How does globalisation impact language dynamics?”
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