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Do you teach 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲, 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗺𝗶 or another #endangered language? Then please take a few minutes to participate in our OWL+ survey! owlplus.eu/.../11/15/part… #frysk #mirandes #latgalian #saami #help #survey @OWLplus_eu

Today's random thought: does anyone on Linguist Twitter know of research on the intersection of signed languages and synesthesia?

Phonotactics should mean tactical phonology. If I'm lost in the woods at night what sounds should I make? What about if the apocalypse comes?

I'm looking for two Spanish-speaking master's students to work on a Sáliba repatriation project. Start date: September 2023. UofA offers full MA funding and the project also has fieldwork and conference travel funding :) RT please! (ssila.org/news1/call-for…) #linguistics #langdoc

Okay, linguist Twitter. Tell/show me your best ideas for linguistics-themed Halloween costumes. I think I might dress up as the phoneme [ɬ], by dressing all in black, and cutting a section from a hula-hoop and attaching it to the back of a belt.

Attn linguistic fieldworkers: Anyone have a resource for good, blank, map tasks? I want to use some in a workshop I'm giving next month and I'd like to look through several options but am coming up short on good quality images/items. Any direction will be most welcomed!

The Global Coalition for Language Rights have been translating the concept of language rights into plain language, across a number of languages. I appreciate the way this document clearly spells out a concept that is often spoken about very metaphorically or allusively.

reported speech is how this is taught in ESL/EFL contexts, but feel free to chip in with a different (maybe discipline-specific) name!

We recently posted an infographic about the language nest model - the goal is to share key ideas in #languagerevitalization in accessible, plain language. Which topic should the next infographic cover?

Sociolinguist tweeps: Favorite "Intro to Socioling" books for an intro class (mixed Grad/UG)? I'm looking to make a switch after inheriting a class that was using "What is Socioling: Linguistics in the World" (Van Herk). It was fine, but I'm looking for something different. Thx

Language challenge for our linguists, wishing happy birthday to a fellow linguist: (TR) Doğum günün kutlu olsun, Qianqian!

What's a good alternative to Ethnologue for language statistics - numbers of speakers etc.? I want to avoid using anything produced by SIL, because evangelical proselytism masquerading as "linguistics" is gross.

Hey, linguistics Twitter - a question: is there any convention for marking invented examples, to distinguish them from examples taken from real-life data? I don't want to have to spell it out each time I'm inventing an illustration, but I can't find any guidance on conventions.

Have any AusEng sociophoneticians looked at diphthongisation of the BOOT vowel? On ABC News Breakfast this morning I've heard two women pronounce it something like ʉɪ rather than ʉː . Michaela Cash is the most prominent example of this @HowardManns @joshuaclx @debbie_dloa

Can anyone help me with a better adjective that means “not white”? I know “BAME” is contentious, and “non-white” feels awful because it centres whiteness. Is it best to use “…of colour”? “Communities of colour”, e.g.? >>