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Language Creation: The Basics

Have you ever wanted to get into making your own language. Well this video here is a good place to start. He looks into the different parts of a conlang you need and then proceed to create his conlang using the procedure he has given. He explains what he is doing well and this video […]

IPA Basics: Voicing

Voicing involves using the voice box while pronouncing a letter. It is the difference between k and g, between t and d, between s and z. Some languages have only one of a voicing pair, but others will have both. English has both a voiced and unvoiced “th” sound, but many other languages that have […]

Minority languages

All languages are cool! Spanish has an awesome rhythm and sound to it. Arabic is a very interesting language with some sounds we don’t hear in English. But minority languages are also awesome. You probably don’t hear these languages spoken where you are because of how small they are, but if you can find some […]

Click consonants

Only languages in Southern Africa, and one language in Australia have clicks. It is rather unusual for a sound to be so rare in world languages. Some linguists think these sounds are so rare because they came from one of the first human languages and has stuck around in language in Southern Africa. Whatever the […]

30 dialects of the English language in the UK

All languages display interesting variation. English is no exception. The variation is much larger in the place of its birth, England. Here is an overview of 30 dialects of English in the United Kingdom. I find dialects very interesting. Sometimes it is not just pronunciation that is different, but words too.

Why Bernie Sanders tawks that way

Bernie Sanders grew up in Brooklyn. The place you grew up and who you spent time with as a child has a huge affect on your speech. The Brooklyn accent is starting to go away now, just as all the accents in America are homogenising. But it is still very present in the older people […]