This study investigates the origin of retroflex r in the Low German of the Mexican Old Colony Mennonites. This sound cannot be found in the questionnaires of the Deutsche Sprachatlas or any of the ...

A FRIEND recently asked me what gives Indian English its unique sound. With 22 constitutionally recognised languages in India, and hundreds more spoken, how is it that many Indians’ English accents ...

The Slavic affricate represented by /č/ is tacitly or explicitly assumed to be /t͡ʃ/ for all Slavic languages. In this paper we revise the affricate inventories of Polish and Czech, showing that the ...

Manusmriti, dated to 300 AD, refers to eight ways in which a bride has to be secured. The forms not recommended are those where a father’s control is missing. This involves involve buying a wife (like ...

The stark difference between how Gujarati is spoken in different regions is to do with the dialects, colloquial words and expressions, and more importantly, how the phonology (pronunciation) is ...

As mentioned yesterday, the risk in correcting others is that you get exposed to correction yourself. So it turns out to be -- sort of -- with my comments about the L and R sounds in Japanese. Major ...