#languagediversity — Public Fediverse posts

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about the rise and fall of #languageDiversity I also put in a bit about early #writing systems and how #protoElamite mysteriously disappeared.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html

#science #scienceWriter #humans #anthropology #languages #linguistics

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about the rise and fall of #languageDiversity I also put in a bit about early #writing systems and how #protoElamite mysteriously disappeared.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html

#science #scienceWriter #humans #anthropology #languages #linguistics

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about the rise and fall of #languageDiversity I also put in a bit about early #writing systems and how #protoElamite mysteriously disappeared.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html

#science #scienceWriter #humans #anthropology #languages #linguistics

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about the rise and fall of #languageDiversity I also put in a bit about early #writing systems and how #protoElamite mysteriously disappeared.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html

#science #scienceWriter #humans #anthropology #languages #linguistics

this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about the rise and fall of #languageDiversity I also put in a bit about early #writing systems and how #protoElamite mysteriously disappeared.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html

#science #scienceWriter #humans #anthropology #languages #linguistics

my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 17:

On the #evolution and #extinction of #languages https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/09/languages-rise-and-fall.html #science #humans #linguistics #languageDiversity

A Forgotten Wave of Extinction May Have Erased Thousands of Human Languages 

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/28/a-forgotten-wave-of-extinction-may-have-erased-thousands-of-human-languages/

Ah yes, the timeless saga of language diversity masterfully reduced to a **JavaScript** error page. 🖥️🔒 Because nothing says "scholarly insight" quite like forgetting to turn on your browser settings. 🌐🤦‍♂️
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343 #JavaScript #languageDiversity #browserSettings #errorPage #scholarlyInsight #HackerNews #ngated

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038181

#HackerNews #languageDiversity #Holocene #history #culturalLinguistics #evolution #ofLanguages #scienceNews

23-Jul-2026
The lost golden age of #languageDiversity
New modelling suggests that tens of thousands of #languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and that their decline began well before European colonial expansion

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136961

#science #linguistics #anthropology

Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-values-models-languages

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918956

#HackerNews #SocietalImpacts #ClaudeValues #AIModels #LanguageDiversity #EthicalAI

🚀 Plug in your brain for this thrilling saga of USB Power Delivery! Enjoy the dizzying parade of languages while discovering the shocking revelation that plugging a cable into a socket can deliver power. Truly groundbreaking stuff! ⚡🔌
https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/article/usb-power-delivery-plugging-into-the-benefits #USBPowerDelivery #ThrillingSaga #GroundbreakingTechnology #CableConnection #PowerRevolution #LanguageDiversity #HackerNews #ngated

Isolated populations are genetically less diverse but linguistically more diverse. A new PNAS study documents an inverse global correlation between genetic and structural linguistic diversity, and the signal is stronger than climate or terrain. #linguistics #populationgenetics #languagediversity https://www.anthropology.net/p/where-languages-diverge-most-genomes

🤖 Ah, #Meta has cracked the code to translate 1,600 languages... until you realize they’ve left out about 5,400 others. 🌍🔍 Apparently, ‘No Language Left Behind’ only applies if those languages were popular in the last century. 🧐 #TechInnovationOrSomething
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/omnilingual-mt-machine-translation-for-1600-languages/?_fb_noscript=1 #TechInnovation #LanguageTranslation #AI #GlobalLanguages #LanguageDiversity #HackerNews #ngated

💬🌐 Join the global online translat-a-thon this Saturday, 6 December at 13:00 CET

‘Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages' will be a day of collaborative translation to make key Wikimedia capacity-building resources accessible in every language.

More details ⬇️
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Many_Tongues%2C_One_Movement%3AVoices_Across_Languages

#Wikimedia #LanguageDiversity #CapX #WikimediaTranslatathon

🐒 Oh, rejoice! An extension that ensures you stay blissfully unaware of foreign content by stubbornly refusing translations on YouTube. Because who needs linguistic diversity when you have Firefox extensions? 🌎✨
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/ #YouTubeExtensions #LanguageDiversity #FirefoxExtensions #TechNews #BrowsingExperience #HackerNews #ngated

spending time on Mastodon

I enjoy the exposure to different technical / cultural / scientific vocabularies on here. As someone on the spectrum, I read much of that technical lingo as expression of passion.

I find such passion heartening.

I love learning new things, about the world and about humans. Though mostly about the world lol. Lichens, cicadas, tardigrades, megafauna, quasars....

#actuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #LanguageDiversity #autisticJoy #learning @actuallyautistic

Did you know there’s no such thing as a universal sign language? 🌍 Sign languages belong to families, just like spoken ones! For example, BSL is related to Australian and NZ Sign Language but completely different from American Sign Language (ASL). Want to know more? Check out DCAL's Sign Language Facts: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/deafness-cognition-and-language-dcal/dcal-resources/dcal-sign-language-facts #LanguageDiversity #SignLanguageFacts #BSLResearch

🌍 Preserving Languages – Protecting Cultures 🗣️
Researchers from the #UniCologne are exploring the most remote areas of the world to document endangered languages. This work aims to preserve the cultural heritage and collective knowledge of language communities. Every word saved is a piece of identity and history. 📜
Discover more ➡️ https://uni.koeln/XSNWV

#UniKöln #UniCologne #Linguistics #CulturalHeritage #LanguageDiversity #LanguagePreservation #Research #FieldResearch

Did you attend #Celticknot2024? We want to hear about your experience! Add your blog posts, photos and videos to wiki under the 'documentation' tab☘️
➡️https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2024
#languagediversity

5-Sep-2024
Islands are engines of linguistic diversity, study shows

Islands drive language change and generate #languageDiversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from The Australian National University (ANU) that analysed #languages from over 13,000 inhabited #islands.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1057024 #science #evolution

I cannot find a way to reliably set the default language of Office 365 to British English. No matter how deep I go into even the Normal templates, there will always be moments when it will revert to US English (any software update will mess it up for sure). Outlook is especially pesky, but overall, Microsoft really misses the mark for being a truly global brand, respectful of the vast majority of its users that are non-US.
#Microsoft #MSOffice #LanguageDiversity

MAHALIN AT PAUSBUNGIN ANG ATING WIKA 🗣

Ginugunita tuwing Pebrero 21 ang International Mother Language Day bilang pagpapahalaga sa pagkakaiba-iba ng wika at kultura sa buong mundo.

#IMLD2024
#LanguageDiversity
#BMPM

🇪🇺 3rd #OWS.EU Member State Briefing recap.

3 x per year the OWS.EU team invites representatives from EU member states to gain insights on the project status.
The January meeting centered on the economic impact of an OWI.
🔺 OWS.EU third-party partner Mücke Roth & Company presented their ongoing study which explores scenarios for attaining ROI from potential commercial projects.
🔺 Further topics addressed #EnergyEfficiency, #LanguageDiversity + #digitalsovereignty
#Policymakers
@EC_NGI

How #MinT, a machine translation service for #wikipedia is doing ⬇️

It relies on open-source NMT and data models released by projects such as Meta's #NoLanguageLeftBehind and supports languages often overlooked by others.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/20/unlocking-the-worlds-languages-in-wikipedia-a-look-into-mints-impact-so-far/

#Translation #LanguageDiversity

10-May-2023
New database offers insight into consequences of language loss
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988875 #science #languages #LanguageDiversity

Marcadores discursivos, vacilación, disfluencias o pausas sonoras y su importancia en el lenguaje natural. Aunque no le guste a algun@s lingüistas y personas con ciertas ideologías lingüísticas son importantes. Los odiados "estee🇲🇽, like🇺🇸, genre🇫🇷".

#LanguageDiversity
#Linguistics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBcfJqCukMo&ab_channel=TED-EdEspa%C3%B1ol

There are more distinct languages spoken in the red areas than the grey areas of this map.

language families in red:
Austronesian 1,246 languages
Niger-Congo 1,495
Trans-New Guinea 561
+ other Papuan ~200

counts from Ethnologue 2005

#LanguageDiversity #anthropology (imported from #AnthroTwitter)