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Finnish Comprehensible Input: Street Quiz in Rovaniemi (10 World Capitals) #opisuomea #learnfinnish FULL FREE EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: ultimatelanguagenotebook.com/blogs/news/fin…

English borrowed almost 150 words from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings—including the pronoun “they”! babbel.com/en/magazine/13… #linguistics #language #history #etymology

Finnish Comprehensible Input: Street Quiz in Rovaniemi (10 Chemical Elements). #learnfinnish #opisuomea FULL FREE EPISODE TRANSCRIPT 👇 ultimatelanguagenotebook.com/blogs/news/lea…

Stele of Hammurabi, also known as 'Code of Hammurabi', a remarkable Babylonian legal text artifact (1792-1750 BC). It is longest, best-organised and best-preserved legal text from ancient Near East. It is written in Old Babylonian dialect of  Akkadian, purportedly by  Hammurabi, 6th king of First Dynasty of Babylon (1894-1595 BC), Central Mesopotamia. Primary copy of text is inscribed on a basalt stele 2.25m tall. It was rediscovered in 1901 CE, at site of Susa in modern-day Iran, where it had been taken as plunder 600 years after its creation. Text itself was copied and studied by Mesopotamian scribes for over a Millennium. This basalt stele also features a relief sculpture at top, depicting Hammurabi receiving the law symbolized by a measuring rod and tape from the seated Shamash, the Babylonian god of justice. The rest of the 7ft 5 inch monument is covered with columns of chiseled cuneiform script, provide detailed inscription of Babylonian laws and regulations. It was commissioned by King Hammurabi of Babylon, one of most influential rulers of ancient Mesopotamia, as a means of codifying and displaying his laws to his people. The text, compiled at the end of Hammurabi’s reign, is less a proclamation of principles than a collection of legal precedents, set between prose celebrating Hammurabi’s just and pious rule. Hammurabi’s Code provides some of the earliest examples of the doctrine of “lex talionis,” or the laws of retribution, sometimes better known as “an eye for an eye.” The Code of Hammurabi includes many harsh punishments, sometimes demanding the removal of the guilty party’s tongue, hands, breasts, eye or ear. But the code is also one of the earliest examples of an accused person being considered innocent until proven guilty. The stele is primarily known for its inscription of 282 laws that governed various aspects of Babylonian society, including matters of commerce, property, family, and criminal justice. These 282 complex rules handed down by King Hammurabi of Babylon. You may have heard phrase “eye for an eye” quoted from it, but that penalty depended on your status and rank of person you injured. These laws are written in Akkadian cuneiform script and provide valuable insights into the social and legal norms of the time. The 282 edicts are all written in if-then form. For example, if a man steals an ox, then he must pay back 30 times its value. The edicts range from family law to professional contracts and administrative law, often outlining different standards of justice for the three classes of Babylonian society; the propertied class, freedmen and slaves. A doctor’s fee for curing a severe wound would be 10 silver shekels for a gentleman, five shekels for a freedman and two shekels for a slave. Penalties for malpractice followed the same scheme: a doctor who killed a rich patient would have his hands cut off, while only financial restitution was required if the victim was a slave. Code of Hammurabi is often regarded as one of the earliest known legal codes in human history, reflecting the importance of legal and social order in ancient Mesopotamia. Today, the Stele of Hammurabi serves not only as a legal document but also as a historical and cultural artifact. It includes a prologue that highlights Hammurabi’s role as a just and wise ruler, chosen by the gods to bring order and justice to his kingdom. Louvre Museum #archaeohistories

@alex_senoner Congrats! Hopefully many more will come soon.🥳

I’d like to share a small milestone that means a lot to me. Today, for the first time, someone subscribed to LinguaMerse! A person from Chile paid a subscription to learn German. It’s a really special moment after working on this project for quite a while. 🙂🙏

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Mansi language textbook for beginners PDF edition.fi/suomalaisugril…

Top 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World by Total Speakers 1. 🇺🇸 English - 1.13B 2. 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese - 1.12B 3. 🇮🇳 Hindi - 615.5M 4. 🇪🇸 Spanish - 534.3M 5. 🇫🇷 French - 279.8M 6. 🌍 Standard Arabic - 273.9M 7. 🇧🇩 Bengali - 265M 8. 🇷🇺 Russian - 258.2M 9. 🇵🇹 Portuguese - 234.2M 10. 🇮🇩 Indonesian - 198.7M 11. 🇵🇰 Urdu - 170.2M 12. 🇩🇪 German - 132.1M 13. 🇯🇵 Japanese - 128.3M 14. 🇰🇪 Swahili - 98.3M 15. 🇮🇳 Marathi - 95.3M 16. 🇮🇳 Telugu - 93M 17. 🇵🇰 Western Punjabi - 92.7M 18. 🇨🇳 Wu Chinese - 81.5M 19. 🇮🇳 Tamil - 80.9M 20. 🇹🇷 Turkish - 79.7M 21. 🇰🇷 Korean - 77.2M 22. 🇻🇳 Vietnamese - 76.9M 23. 🇨🇳 Yue Chinese - 73.5M 24. 🇮🇩 Javanese - 68.2M 25. 🇮🇹 Italian - 67.8M 26. 🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic - 64.6M 27. 🇳🇬 Hausa - 63.4M 28. 🇹🇭 Thai - 60.6M 29. 🇮🇳 Gujarati - 60.5M 30. 🇮🇳 Kannada - 56.4M 31. 🇮🇷 Persian - 52.7M 32. 🇮🇳 Bhojpuri - 52.4M 33. 🇨🇳 Southern Min - 50.4M 34. 🇨🇳 Hakka - 48.4M 35. 🇨🇳 Jinyu - 46.9M 36. 🇵🇭 Filipino - 45M 37. 🇲🇲 Burmese - 42.9M 38. 🇵🇱 Polish - 40.3M 39. 🇳🇬 Yoruba - 39.8M 40. 🇮🇳 Odia - 38M 41. 🇮🇳 Malayalam - 37.8M 42. 🇨🇳 Xiang - 37.3M 43. 🇮🇳 Maithili - 34M 44. 🇺🇦 Ukrainian - 33M 45. 🇲🇦 Moroccan Arabic - 32.6M 46. 🇮🇳 Eastern Punjabi - 32.6M 47. 🇮🇩 Sunda - 32.4M 48. 🇩🇿 Algerian Arabic - 32.3M 49. 🇸🇦 Sundanese Arabic - 31.9M 50. 🇳🇬 Nigerian Pidgin - 30M 51. 🇿🇦 Zulu - 27.7M 52. 🇳🇬 Igbo - 27M 53. 🇪🇹 Amharic - 25.8M 54. 🇺🇿 Uzbek - 25.1M 55. 🇵🇰 Sindhi - 24.6M 56. 🇱🇧 Levantine Arabic - 24.5M 57. 🇳🇵 Nepali - 24.5M 58. 🇷🇴 Romanian - 24.3M 59. 🇵🇭 Tagalog - 23.8M 60. 🇳🇱 Dutch - 23M 61. 🇪🇬 Sa'idi Arabic - 22.4M 62. 🇨🇳 Gan Chinese - 22.1M 63. 🇦🇫 Pashto - 20.8M 64. 🇮🇳 Magahi - 20.7M 65. 🇵🇰 Saraiki - 20M 66. 🇿🇦 Xhosa - 19.1M 67. 🇲🇾 Malay - 19M 68. 🇰🇭 Khmer - 17.5M 69. 🇿🇦 Afrikaans - 17.5M 70. 🇱🇰 Sinhala - 17.2M 71. 🇸🇴 Somali - 16.3M 72. 🇮🇳 Chhattisgarhi - 16.3M 73. 🇵🇭 Cebuano - 15.9M 74. 🇮🇶 Mesopotamian Arabic - 15.6M 75. 🇮🇳 Assamese - 15.3M 76. 🇹🇭 Northeastern Thai - 15M 77. 🇹🇷 Kurdish - 14.6M 78. 🇸🇦 Hijazi Arabic - 14.5M 79. 🇳🇬 Fulfulde - 14.4M 80. 🇩🇪 Bavarian - 14.3M 81. 🇲🇱 Bamanankan - 14.1M 82. 🇦🇿 South Azerbaijani - 13.8M 83. 🇿🇦 Northern Sotho - 13.7M 84. 🇿🇦 Setswana - 13.6M 85. 🇿🇦 Southern Sotho - 13.5M 86. 🇨🇿 Czech - 13.3M 87. 🇬🇷 Greek - 13.1M 88. 🇧🇩 Chittagonian - 13M 89. 🇰🇿 Kazakh - 12.9M 90. 🇸🇪 Swedish - 12.8M 91. 🇮🇳 Deccan - 12.8M 92. 🇭🇺 Hungarian - 12.5M 93. 🇨🇮 Jula - 12.4M 94. 🇮🇳 Sadri - 12.1M 95. 🇷🇼 Kinyarwanda - 12.1M 96. 🇨🇲 Cameroonian Pidgin - 12M 97. 🇧🇩 Sylheti - 11.8M 98. 🇱🇧 South Levantine Arabic - 11.6M 99. 🇹🇳 Tunisian Arabic - 11.5M 100. 🇾🇪 Sanaani Arabic - 11.3M Source: The data was collected with the aid of WordTips visualization of the 22nd edition of Ethnologue - "a research center for language intelligence"

List of Podcasts in #Icelandic nutiminn.is/ahugavert/10-b…

Albma Duođas Podcast The other host speaks Swedish, the other one Norwegian and sometimes they speak Northern Sámi. sverigesradio.se/grupp/50229

Polyglot Podcast #92 Hope Gomezgya Hope is from Zambia, but grew up in Cape Town. She heard her family members speaking Lozi, Tumbuka, Bemba and English while growing up. #LanguageLearning youtu.be/AS6lZl_ILnc

7 Weekdays in 100 Languages #languagelearning youtu.be/HLIuYbPv3po

@riseconler Wow , are you really learning the North Korean form of Korean?

Polyglot Podcast Entire conversations in these languages: Finnish English Swedish Estonian German Spanish Italian Portuguese French Russian Danish Norwegian Yiddish Indonesian Latin Meänkieli Galician Bavarian Livvi Karelian Ladin Dutch #languages youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@AmishFAC I'm looking someone who speaks Plattduuts who can tell about the language and amish culture while speakng Plattduuts and I German or English back. Do you know anyone who I could interview through Zoom?

Does anyone know people in Brazil speaking the old varieties of German, Italian or other European languages that were conserved there after WW2? I'm trying to find someone to talk in their language form about their language background.

@idiomarium I can't contact you through DM but I wanted to ask if you would be willing to participate in a language podcast sometime this year?

The first recorded disappearance of an uncontacted tribe: nytimes.com/2022/08/29/wor…

Polyglot Podcast #90 @Kenny_DB1983 An interesting discussion with Kenny about Belgium's linguistic situation and Kenny's own language background entirely in Dutch while I spoke German back. How well can you understand us? #LanguageLearning youtu.be/MDEq3L64fmE?si…

I had the immense pleasure of being hosted for the first time on a podcast with @arcticpolyglots 🙂 We had a really nice conversation of almost 1h30min talking about all kinds of aspects of language learning. I hope you enjoy the episode 🙂 youtube.com/watch?v=8gytCF…

Polyglot Podcast #89 @alex_senoner In this episode I spoke in Italian and Alex answered in Ladin about his language background. We have a bit longer conversation in English as well. #LanguageLearning youtu.be/wqS4IIulERA