Monday, October 8, 2012

The Linguist’s Calendar: October 8

Ken Hale
October 8

1868: Preaching in Salt Lake City, Mormon leader Brigham Young proposes a new phonetic alphabet to be used among his followers. The alphabet is devised, but little used, and later abandoned.

1992: Peter Bakker of Amsterdam defends his thesis on Michif, the unique French-Cree mixed language of USA and Canada.

1994: Swedish phonetician and Romanist Bertil Malmberg dies at the age of 81.

2001: Death of Ken Hale.

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