Sunday, August 19, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: August 19

Stephen Wurm
August 19

In New Zealand, this is ”Aphasia and Language Disorders Awareness Day”.
 
1922: Austrian-Australian linguist and polyglot Stephen Wurm is born.
 
1989: Opening of the IPA convention in Kiel. The association’s centenary is celebrated by a revision of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
 
2000: The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina abolishes the constitutional articles declaring only Bosnian and Croatian official in the Federation and only Serbian in the Republika Srpska.

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