Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: August 28

University of Cenderawasih


August 28
 
1922: The Department of Philippine Linguistics is founded at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City.
 
1994: In the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Hans Karlgren proposes the introduction of hen (from Finnish hän) into Swedish as a gender-neutral pronoun.
 
1995: At the University of Cenderawasih in Jayapura, the first International Conference on New Guinea Languages and Linguistics is held.

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