Consonant Aspirations

So I should probably apologise / apologize for my lack of updates the past year or so. It's been pretty crazy since I started grad scho...

My apologies to all my readers, I just haven't had all that much time to blog since I started grad school, though I have a lot of thing...

Okay, I apologise for the long delay, but finally(!), I present you with the solution to the problem set I posted in my last blog post, man...

The past few months, I've been learning a language here in Singapore that's been noted for its crazy mind-bending use of  tone san...

Last week I had a few friends ask me about a recently published study titled "Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry acr...

Recently, I joined the Facebook group " Heritage languages of Singapore ", and was immediately directed to an online petition by ...

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, since I saw this advertisement at my uncle's clinic here in Singapore. It's an...

[If you've come to this post because you're wondering if a particular language is 'futureless' or not, skip down right to t...

There's been quite a bit of internet buzz this past week about the work of Keith Chen, a behavioural economist at Yale. You can see his...

On the weekend I was having brunch with a polyglot friend who asked me, "How do you answer the question, 'How many languages do you...

It's been 6 months since my blog post. A lot has happened since then, not all of it India-related. But I'm back and eagerly awaiting...

I've made it back to Melbourne, in more or less one piece. Got back on Tuesday and have spent the past few days catching up with friends...

I think the last time I came back from India I was feeling much more traumatised, and I'd developed some weird allergies that I hadn...