Episodes
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Episode 29 is here at last, and a certain language is making a repeat appearance, but introduced by a new linguistic lover – what does Colin Gorrie have to say about Old English? We chat the basics of Old English and what makes it so 'old', before getting into how Colin teaches the language, and why he recommends it as a springboard for further linguistic adventures.
Find the details about the brilliant new Osweald Bera book here: https://ancientlanguage.com/osweald-bera/
Check out and subscribe to Colin's substack: https://colingorrie.substack.com/
And don't forget to subscribe to A Language I Love Is...!
Host: Dr Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Colin Gorrie
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Dydh da! Episode 28 of ALILI is here, and Daniel Prohaska joins me to discuss Cornish! This Celtic language has a long and fascinating history, stretching back to Roman Britain. It's a story not only of slow decline, but also of resurrection. Daniel was the ideal expert to introduce it, being involved in modern efforts to revitalise and popularise Cornish for the twenty-first century.
Daniel's professional website: https://www.ryan-prohaska.com/
Daniel's Cornish website: https://kernowekbew.com/
Daniel's audio Cornish course: https://www.kernewegva.com/deskikernowek.html
Host: Dr Danny Bate
Guest: Daniel Prohaska
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Time for Episode 27 and a return to the Slavic languages! Unsurprisingly, Croatian is a Slavic language widely spoken in the modern-day country of Croatia, but did you know that it has many speakers in eastern Austria too? Burgenland Croatian is the starring language of this episode, beloved and chosen by Dr Katharina Tyran. As one of its native speakers and researchers, Katharina is the ideal person to introduce the past, present and future of this minority language.
Katharina's University of Vienna page: https://slawistik.univie.ac.at/personen/person/user/tyrank65/inum/1079/backpid/12319/
Listen to Katharina podcasting in Burgenland Croatian here: https://www.hrvatskicentar.at/de/centar-podcast
Sample of spoken Burgenland Croatian from here: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Croate%20du%20Burgenland?lang=en&mode=pro
Host: Dr Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Katharina Tyran
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Episode 26 is a first for the show: a language so old that it's theoretical! This time, ALILI is discussing the whole Germanic language family, from English to Icelandic, since this episode's starring language is the family's common ancestor: Proto-Germanic. This prehistoric point of origin is the choice of my guest, Yoïn van Spijk, expert etymologist and Dutch dialectologist. Thanks to him, I get to chat linguistic reconstruction, language change and some underappreciated Finnish connections.
Go check out more from Yoïn!
Yoïn's website: https://taalaandewandel.com/
Yoïn's Twitter: https://x.com/yvanspijk
Yoïn's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yvanspijk
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Yoïn van Spijk
Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Episode 25 is here and it's a return to the Finno-Ugric languages with expert linguist Daria Zhornik. The particular member of Finno-Ugric is Mansi (specifically Northern Mansi), spoken in two regions of Russia. Daria both documents and researches this language, and so is full of good information about its history, genealogy, current status, future, and its speakers' very particular and periphrastic ways of talking about animals...
Check out Daria's website here: https://dariazhornik.github.io
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Daria Zhornik
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Episode 24 of ALILI is a return to India, this time to dive into Marathi, the official langauge of the state of Maharashtra and India's third-largest language. My guest is Manish Goregaokar, a software engineer and a real expert on language and writing. We discussed history, geography, society, phonology and vocabulary, as well as Manish's personal experience of speaking Marathi alongside other languages.
Manish's Twitter: https://x.com/ManishEarth
Sample of spoken Marathi from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChitpavaniMarathi.wav
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Manish Goregaokar
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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This is an episode of ALILI with a twist, as Dr Jackson Crawford, YouTube's charming Old Norse expert, had me back on his channel to chat syntax, old languages and public linguistics. Chatting to him and his Patreon supporters was a real treat for me, both to share the ideas of my recent PhD work, and to get his perspective on the state and future of linguistics online. I hope you enjoy these excerpts from our chat!
Jackson's stellar YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@JacksonCrawford
Jackson's Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/norsebysw
Host: Dr Jackson Crawford
Guest: Danny Bate
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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For episode 22, we're travelling high into the Alps, to join linguist and translator Emma Gledhill in the Graubünden/Grisons canton of Switzerland. Emma's chosen language is Romansh, the distinct Romance language of the region that, despite its endangered and disunited state, nonetheless holds the status of one of Switzerland's four official languages. Emma leads us through the origins, history and social standing of Romansh, as well as some delightful bits of vocabulary.
Emma's Twitter: https://twitter.com/linguistforsail?lang=en
Emma's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-gledhill-0608425/
For more about the Chartered Institute of Linguists: https://www.ciol.org.uk/
Sample of spoken Romansh by native speaker Daniel from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romansh_(Wikitongues).ogg
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Emma Gledhill
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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For episode 21, ALILI becomes A Language We Love Is, as two guests, Alba Clopés and Joey Barber, join me to chat Catalan. Our conversation ranges from its Latin origins to ongoing efforts to build up popular usage of the language. Through the phonology, orthography, morphology, history and sociolinguistics of Catalan, you can see why Alba and Joey share a passion for this Romance language.
Sample of spoken Catalan by Ona, from here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Ona_speaking_Catalan.webm
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Alba Clopés, Joey Barber
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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ALILI has reached 20 episodes! The twentieth beloved language is P'urhepecha, a language of Mexico introduced by Dr. Kate Bellamy. Kate enthusiastically takes us through the geography, history, morphology and lonely genealogy of P'urhepecha, as well as the reasons why it deserves to be better known outside Mexico.
Kate's Leiden page: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kate-bellamy#tab-1
Kate's Academia.edu page: https://leidenuni.academia.edu/KateBellamy
Spoken example of P'urhepecha taken from the textbook Ju je uantani, section 3.1, p. 50: https://lanmo.unam.mx/jujeuantani/
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr. Kate Bellamy
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marle
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Episode 19 sees the show's first returning guest, as the maestro of Indo-Iranian languages, Dr. Sāmapriẏa Basu, joins me again, this time to introduce Kashmiri. Beginning with its geographical and political situation, our conversation explores the many distinct features of Kashmiri that, for Sāmapriẏa, make it a 'linguist's language'.
Sample of spoken Kashmiri by Aakriti Khaibri, available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Aakriti_speaking_Kashmiri.webm
Sāmapriẏa's wonderful Twitter site: https://twitter.com/avzaagzonunaada
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr. Sāmapriẏa Basu
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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The third episode of this second series is a Biblical bonanza, as Dr Benjamin Suchard comes on the show to introduce the linguistic world of Biblical Hebrew. We discuss the language's history, its family tree, its layer of loanwords and external influences, and how human this holy language can be.
Benjamin's website: https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/
Benjamin's Academia page: https://kuleuven.academia.edu/BenjaminSuchard
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Benjamin Suchard
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Episode 17 of ALILI is a linguistic and historical voyage into the Bulgarian language, as Vienna's Leonid Motz guides us through the language's many ingredients, far-reaching connections, and membership of the Balkan Sprachbund.
To hear more from Leonid:
His Twitter: https://twitter.com/ulaantenger
His podcasting performance with Jeremy Bradley: https://www.recet.at/podcast/detail/episode-37-minority-languages-in-russia
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Leonid Motz
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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ALILI is back for a second series! Here's episode 16 with Jeremy Bradley, who takes us on a journey into the Mari language. This is a linguistic tour de force, surely the episode that mentions and discusses the most languages, from Estonian to Indonesian.
Jeremy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chi_con_carnage
The Mari website: https://mari-language.univie.ac.at/
Host: Dr Jeremy Bradley
Guest: Danny Bate
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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It's episode 15 and the finale of the first series of ALILI! To mark the occasion, the tables have been turned and your usual host now finds himself on the receiving end of the format he created, as Krishnan Ram-Prasad rejoins the show to interview me about the amazing Old Irish language. We dive into what this language is, who spoke it, who wrote in it, and why it's terrifying at first but actually rather wonderful.
Books to get you started!
- Sengoidelc by David Stifter: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/1022/sengoidelc/
- A Student's Companion to Old Irish grammar by Ranke de Vries: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Se7VzQEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions
Host: Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad
Guest: Danny Bate
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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It's time for the fourteenth and penultimate episode of the first series of ALILI, in which Gioia Cacchioli joins me to talk about Tigrinya, a Semitic and syntactically striking language of eastern Africa. Gioia introduces the language, its family tree, its word-building, its use of the Ge'ez script, and how she came to love Tigrinya.
Here's Gioia's website: https://gioiacacchioli.com/
The word of the episode: abugida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida)
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Gioia Cacchioli
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Here's episode 13 and it's all about Welsh! Victoria Noble, a PhD researcher in the semantics of Welsh and Arabic, joins me to share her enthusiasm and admiration for the Welsh language, discussing both its cool linguistic features and the difficult details of its history.
Note from Victoria: the annual population survey mentioned at 8:02 is from 2023, not 2003.
You can find Victoria on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/LinguisVic
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Victoria Noble
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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For episode 12, I popped along to Charles University in Prague, to interview Dr Radek Šimík, a linguist, lecturer and researcher there, and to talk all about the local language: Czech. The topics ranged from the history of Czech and its dialects, to the influences of German and a special bit of syntax, which made for a great discussion.
You can find Radek's personal website here.
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Radek Šimík
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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Episode 11 of ALILI sees us back beside the Baltic Sea, where Dr Francis Young guides us into the story of Lithuania and the Lithuanian language. Francis discusses both history and prehistory in detail, and joyously shares some rather wrong ideas that people have held about the origin of this Indo-European language.
To learn more from Francis, here's his website and Twitter.
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Francis Young
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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ALILI has made it to ten episodes, and this tenth instalment is a suitably sensational journey into the linguistic and cultural cosmos of Persian. Alexander Jabbari joins me to talk about this influential language, and demonstrate why Persian is a hugely important yet surprisingly accessible global tongue.
Alexander's website and Twitter.
Host: Danny Bate
Guest: Dr Alexander Jabbari
Music: Bossa Nova by William_King
Artwork: William Marler
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