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Language reclamation

January 19, 2015 by Christophe Landry, Ph.D. | Comments are off for this post

In early December 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey, declared that he was re-infusing Ottoman language – the father of modern Turkish languageRead More

Revisiting descriptors again

December 19, 2014 by Christophe Landry, Ph.D. | 3 Comments

On 6 February 1796, Baptiste MEUILLON, a native of St. Charles Parish, and Céleste DONAT[O]-BELLO, a native of New Orleans, decided to tieRead More

Louisiana Creole as an international identifier

December 8, 2014 by Christophe Landry, Ph.D. | 1 comment

Late this afternoon, I received wonderful news from SIL International, which oversees global identifiers and names of languages spoken throughout the world. ScholarsRead More