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  1. Another reason why understanding how #multilingualism and socio-economic opportunities are distributed across urban space. A lot of my research has been about exploring these aspects from a geographical perspective.

    The link is in Finnish, but the title roughly says "Large-scale study: Linguistic competencies are linked to slowing down the aging of the brain."

    Keeping my fingers crossed for positive funding decisions 🤞🎓🔎

    #UrbanStudies #Geography #Sociolinguistics
    hs.fi/tiede/art-2000011627100.

  2. Sometimes the similarity of words from #Oriya / #Hindi to other languages surprises me, though I know it shouldn't because, you know, we are *one* people bound by, trade, war, spices, love. Don't even need to go to #Sanskrit.

    When I first found out Óchi Chórnyje meant Eyes Dark, it made a deep sense to me.

    Ochi is sooo close to aakhi. 😃

    :ablobcool:

    #SocioLinguistics