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  • Language of the Week #8: Tamazight

    ⴰⵏⵙⵓⴼ ⵢⴰⵏⴽⵏ (Welcome) to this next article in the Language of the Week series. Today, we’ll be discussing Tamazight, ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ, a language family spoken throughout North Africa. It is hard to discuss the Tamazight languages independently, so I’ve decided to cover them all together. However, it is important to note that the multiple Tamazight languages…

  • Language of the Week #7: Nuosu

    Onwards now, we move to China’s spice capital of Sichuan, to discuss one of its ethnic minorities, the Nuosu, or Yi, and their prestige language. For clarity’s sake, this article will use Nuosu to refer to the language, and Yi for the people and broader language grouping. (AN: I apologise for the delay in this…

  • Language of the Week #6: Crimean Tatar

    Welcome back to Language of the Week. I do apologise for the break, I was recovering from a flare-up. This “season”, as it were, will discuss minority languages, especially those pressed between multiple cultural forces. So, evidently, we find ourselves turning to Crimean Tatar, a language spoken by an ethnic group of the same name…

  • Language of the Week #5: Tok Pisin

    Onto the final language of this trip around the world, we head to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to cover one of its many languages. Tok Pisin connects people across cultures in the most linguistically diverse country on Earth.

  • Multiculturalism and multilingualism in multi-national corporations

    Multilingualism and cultural diversity can be powerful tools for a multinational corporation (MNC) to connect to diverse cultures and effectively build connections with clients. However, if not properly managed and understood, these cultural differences within a company can cause miscommunication and confusion.

  • Galician and Welsh – twin languages, twin stories

    Galician and Welsh share mirror histories. Each teeters on the edge of a historical global superpower, attempting to assert its cultural identity in the face of hundreds of millions of native speakers of the dominant language.

  • Language of the Week 4: Guaraní

    Next up, we cross the Atlantic into Paraguay, home to Guaraní, the only nationally institutionally recognised Native American language. Many of its speakers are still monolingual, especially in rural areas, and the language has seen a relatively balanced co-existence with Spanish compared to many of its neighbours. The basics Guaraní (Avañe’ẽ) is part of the…

  • Your digital footprint and you

    I’ve noticed an extremely concerning trend over the last few years of people just giving away their personal information online. You’d imagine this is mostly an issue with kids, and while it is, you find adults who treat Threads, Twitter, and Facebook like a private chatroom just for them and their friends, all while broadcasting…

  • What does it mean to be an “Ash”?

    I thought I’d write something a little introspective about who I am, and what that question even really means in the first place. If you don’t know me, my name’s Ash. My go-to description is “I’m a student living in Bangor, Wales”, but obviously there’s more to me than that. I study Modern Languages BA,…

  • Language of the Week #3: Swahili

    Up next on our linguistic tour du monde, we head to the East African Community (EAC) with its lingua franca of choice, Swahili. The Bantu languages stretch far and wide from the southern tip of the continent up as far north as Cameroon. The basics The Bantu languages are an incredibly diverse and historically rich…