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A simple FAQ about the “advantages” of Esperanto and other conlang religions: “easy”, “neutral” and “number of speakers”

November 22, 2008 by Indo-European

This is, as requested by a reader of the Association’s website, a concise FAQ about Esperanto’s supposed advantages:
Note: Information and questions are being added to the FAQ thanks to the comments made by visitors.
1. Esperanto has an existing community of speakers, it is used in daily life, it has native speakers…
Sorry, I don’t know any [...]

Posted in Conlang, English, Esperanto, European Union, History, Ido, Indo-European language, Interlingua, International Auxiliary Languages, Language alternatives, Linguistics, Proto-Indo-European | 26 Comments »

How many words do we use in daily speech? A new study from the Royal Spanish Academy on language acquisition

November 21, 2008 by Indo-European

According to the members of the Royal Spanish Academy (the Real Academia Española), humanities have experienced a decrease in importance for younger generations, English is becoming predominant, language in general is poorer in the Media and in all public speeches, classical languages disappear, people play less attention to reading, and computer terms are invading everything.
All [...]

Posted in Conlang, Education, English, Esperanto, European Union, Language alternatives, Linguistics | 3 Comments »

Bronze Age village discovered in central-western Romania, in the region of Transylvania

November 18, 2008 by Indo-European

The official Agerpres news agency reported on Wednesday that a village established in the Bronze Age has been recently discovered near Zalau town, northwestern Romania. The discovery was made following an archeological discharge relating to 2 square kilometers in Recea, close to Zalau.
“It is for the fist time in Transylvania, central-western region of Romania, when [...]

Posted in Archaeology, Education, Europe, European Union, History, Indo-European | No Comments »

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the longest proto-Canaanite text ever found, archaeologists say

October 26, 2008 by Indo-European

According to the BBC News ‘Oldest Hebrew script’ is found:
The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a dig about 20km (12 miles) south-west of Jerusalem. Experts at Hebrew University said dating showed it was written 3,000 years ago - about 1,000 years earlier than the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other scientists cautioned that further [...]

Posted in Archaeology, History, Linguistics | 1 Comment »

About the Extremaduran Wikipedia and possible Copyleft violations - La “Güiquipeya” en “estremeñu” y la falta de la más mínima etiqueta

August 29, 2008 by Indo-European

I’m studying right now, so I’ll make the shortest comment possible, trying not to waste more time on this question. The story is more or less as follows:
1898 - José María Gabriel y Galán publishes his first work in Extremaduran, an Astur-Leonese dialect, a text called El Cristu Benditu, “The Blessed Christ”, written with a [...]

Posted in Personal | 3 Comments »

Bronze Age “German Stonehenge” of Saxony-Anhalt unearthed, maybe related to Europe’s Indo-European speakers

July 30, 2008 by Indo-European

Some years after the discovery of the Nebra Sky disc and observatory (dated ca. 1600 BC), near what was then called the “German Stonehenge” (see Deutsche Welle news), archaeologists from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg have unearthed another similar structure, but this time probably related to the Indo-European settlers who still spoke Europe’s (or Northwestern) [...]

Posted in Archaeology, History, Proto-Indo-European | 1 Comment »

Wordpress Translation Plugin - now using Google Translation from and into Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.

July 24, 2008 by Indo-European

The latest improvements added to the Indoeuropean Translator Widget have been included in the simpler Wordpress Translation Plugin available in this personal blog.
It now includes links to automatic translations from and into all language pairs offered by Google Translation Engine, apart from other language pairs (from individual languages, like English or Spanish) into other online [...]

Posted in Translation Software | No Comments »

Is euroscepticism gaining momentum in Ireland, as it supposedly did in France and the Netherlands?

June 14, 2008 by Indo-European

Less than half of the Irish population voted on the Lisbon Treaty, the so-called Constitution of the European Union. In other words: 862,415 votes against and 752,451 in favour, giving a majority of 109,964 against, decided this time the future of nearly 500 million Europeans. Some pro-Europeans are asking now what eurosceptics have often asked [...]

Posted in European Union, Politics | 2 Comments »

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