Friday, August 24, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: August 24

Vanishing Voices


 

August 24

1983: In a letter to his former teachers Tom Wasow and Ivan Sag, Stanford linguistics graduate Christopher Culy reports from Mali that Bambara might match the description of a context-free language.


1995: The Uzbek alphabet is revised.
 
2000: Vanishing Voices, a book on the earth’s decreasing linguistic diversity, is published by Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine.

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