languages

Gaelic and Scots: Cultural Connections & Inspirations in the 20th Century

“In a time when minority languages face significant challenges, revisiting the connections between Gaelic and Scots offers not just historical insight, but a hopeful model for how linguistic communities can collaborate and flourish together.”

A blog post by Dr Megan Bushnell with Dr Petra Johana Poncarová

https://www.clarin.ac.uk/article/gaelic-and-scots-cultural-connections-and-inspirations-20th-century

#Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Scots #Scotslanguage #language #languages #minoritylanguages

Sometimes Cantonese words and phrases mean different things in Singapore / Malaysia vs in HK, but sometimes they mean the same glorious thing: 煲電話粥

Cooking congee on the telephone (talking on the phone so long that you could have made congee)

https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/1731/

#Cantonese #Languages

Why Is Welsh Spoken in Some Parts of Argentina?

By Michael Nordine

https://dailypassport.com/why-welsh-spoken-argentina/

Welsh is sometimes known as the language of heaven (Iaith y nefoedd)

#languages #countries

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With this plugin you can enable South and Southeast Asian scripts for OpenStreetMaps rendered in Web GL

Scripts supported: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu

https://github.com/wipfli/maplibre-gl-complex-text/

#Maps #TootSea #India #Languages #OpenStreetMaps

Finding Common Ground: New Scots Stories
16 June, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Free, booking required

Join Finding Common Ground for a community walk & creative writing workshop as part of Refugee Festival Scotland. Discover unexpected connections between migration stories new & old; listen to seldom-heard voices; & find common ground in journeys across landscapes, languages, & literatures

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-common-ground-new-scots-stories-tickets-1382461552719

#Scottish #literature #storytelling #refugees #migration #languages

The Mayan languages spreading across the US

"Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250515-the-mayan-languages-spreading-across-the-us?ocid=global_future_rss

Flag of Guatemala

#languages #centralamerica #mexico #history

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