Consonant Aspirations

Today was the first day of the 6th annual North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) conference taking place this year at Tezpur Universi...

On the Johnson blog at the Economist, there was a post a few days ago titled, "The language holding Malays, Tamils and Chinese together...

I remember a small incident from the year I spent on exchange in France. I was in Lourdes for a few days and I recall I was looking for a ce...

Between Assamese lessons, preparing my presentation for this coming week's North-east Linguistics Society (NEILS) conference, and being ...

Months ago I commented on how BBC reporters refer to the Chinese currency, the yuan /juɛn/ 元, as the /juan/ 'you-ahn' , rhyming wit...

26 January is Australia Day (to some, 'Invasion Day'), which commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. 26 ...

I've had a rather mixed bag when booking hotels / guest houses in India. My first time in Kolkata in 2009, I'd booked a room at a ...