A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
Never heard of the Udi language? Get ready to be beguiled by this poster child for endangered languages. The history of the Udi people and...
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If you want to know where African American English is headed, listen to Shondel Nero. Shondel was born in the Caribbean nation of Guyana...
Guest host Ciku Theuri speaks with music writer Jordannah Elizabeth about the intimate relationship between music and Black American speech...
Are the roots of African American English mainly African? Or English? Or something else? Linguists—and others—don’t agree. Ciku...
Until recently, issuing a death threat required some effort. Today, anyone with a phone or computer can make a threat—or receive one. The...
If Latin is dead, why is it easy to find meetups of people speaking it? Why is a group of scholars and lexicographers working on what has...
Ellen Jovin belongs to that rare breed of human with a passion for grammar. You will too if you spend a few minutes with her, your grammar...
Steve Jobs’ last words were: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” Oscar Wilde went with: “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do...
How do you keep your language alive while also protecting the health of elders? That’s been the quandary facing Ojibwe educators...
For centuries, Russians have dismissed the Ukrainian language as “Little Russian,” its speakers as simple-minded peasants. The...
Kavita Pillay recently moved to Helsinki with her Finnish husband and half-Finnish daughter. While husband and daughter effortlessly...
We can’t always find words to describe our emotions—not in English, at least. In this episode, Saleem Reshamwala asks friends who...