Edward Strange is a great name, and in this case it's on a great book from 1896 on alphabets and lettering,

With poetry and chants, Omanis strive to preserve ancient language u.afp.com/SMzS

Birds Are Obeying a Secret Law of Human Language popularmechanics.com/science/animal…

More and more Turkish high schools and universities are offering German courses, and an increasing number of Turkish people are studying in German universities. What's behind the trend? p.dw.com/p/50Mcb

The Old English word for equinox is 'emniht', from 'efen' and 'niht', when night and day are evenly balanced. Today is the 'hærfestlice emniht', autumnal equinox; after this (says Byrhtferth of Ramsey) 'langað seo niht and wanað se dæg', 'the night lengthens and the day wanes'.

New book examines language loss among multilingual speakers phys.org/news/2025-09-l… via Phys.org

Mysterious signs on Teotihuacan murals may reveal an early form of Uto-Aztecan language phys.org/news/2025-10-m… via Phys.org

Across history, linguists have insisted that language sets humans apart from other species. But a new study demonstrating AI’s startlingly complex “metalinguistic” skills threatens to throw mankind’s exclusivity out the window. quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-…

The Minoan tablet we still can't solve youtube.com/watch?v=4PbkTh…

A group of researchers studied which language is best understood by artificial intelligence, with Polish in the lead and English only ranking at sixth place. l.euronews.com/BsRb

Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Down Biological Aging An international study of more than 86,000 Europeans found that speaking multiple languages may slow biological aging and protect against age-related decline. Using AI models to estimate “biobehavioral age,”

A Dictionary of the English Language By Samuel Johnson This is the 5th edition from 1784 of what some would call THE Dictionary of the English Language... and it is an absolute unit.

Here's my conversation with Irving Finkel, a scholar of ancient languages and Mesopotamian history. He specializes in deciphering cuneiform tablets from Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian contexts. He became widely known for studying a tablet with a Mesopotamian flood

Japan aims to stop manga piracy with AI translation training program s.nikkei.com/3NbfKkY

Harlequin’s French division is reportedly transitioning to AI-generated translation, according to a letter published by The French Literary Translators Association and the collective En Chair et en Os (In Flesh and Bone: For Human Translation) 👇

Feature: "The Best Translated Japanese Fiction Books of 2025" in Tokyo_Weekender tokyoweekender.com/art_and_cultur…

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language--It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It's Now Free Online | Open Culture ift.tt/okMb6iz

Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write it.  cherokeephoenix.org/culture/transl…

Writing implements: stylus, wooden writing tablet, ink wells, Roman, 1st century