A global database has been created linking linguistic and genetic data entitled GeLaTo (Genes and Languages Together).
People and the Spread of Language
‘Deep Wheel Orcadia’ by Harry Josephine Giles Wins Top Science Fiction Award
Harry Josephine Giles’s Deep Wheel Orcadia has won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction.
Language & Domination – Or – One Way to Squash A Culture
“I’m continuing to read ‘Orkney Shore’, in which Robert Rendall mentions the muddle which the Latin names for shells had got into due to different people in different places using different spelling”
Normal People
” Is there another country anywhere where actually teaching your own language in your own schools to your own people would be seen as somehow controversial and politically divisive?”
‘Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics’
“Jumping sharks and dropping mics – Modern idioms and where they come from” goes through the origins and use of various idioms such as “Groundhog Day”, that colour our everyday communication.
UHI Public Consultation on Gaelic Language Plan
“Consultation is an important part of the process, so I would encourage anyone with an interest in the plan to share their views.” Professor Todd Walker
‘Deep Wheel Orcadia’ by Harry Josephine Giles
“Overall, this is a beautifully written book. I loved the poetic nature of its verses.”
Largest Collection of Siberian Indigenous Voice Recordings to be Digitised
“The archive contains recordings taken from the 1920s through to the 1980s made by Soviet ethnographers and linguists but it is now extremely fragile.” – Professor Anderson
Hae’in A Keek Wi Firefox
The Firefox web browser has become the first major software available in the Scots language
2021 HebCelt Survival Sessions #BetweenIslands
“After all this time it’s amazing to get together, and especially because so much work has gone on behind the scenes to make it happen.”
