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Petra van Cronenburg'Like our human families, they’re not together all the time — they may split up ... When family members reunite after having been separated, they greet one another with a special rumble and greeting ceremony.' Great interview with Dr Joyce Poole about elephants calling themselves with names (yes, like dolphins do): <a href="https://bioneers.org/how-elephants-call-each-other-by-name-joyce-poole-on-a-lifetime-of-listening-zmaz2507/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bioneers.org/how-elephants-call-each-other-by-name-joyce-poole-on-a-lifetime-of-listening-zmaz2507/</a> More infos about the study (2024) on her website: <a href="https://elephantvoices.org/latest-news-updates/enewsletters/like-us-elephants-have-names-too" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://elephantvoices.org/latest-news-updates/enewsletters/like-us-elephants-have-names-too</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/elephants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elephants</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/elefant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elefant</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AnimalCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnimalCommunication</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

LisaHThank goodness for something funnyThis <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#professor</a> really learned his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAlpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAlpha</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialect</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communcation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communcation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haha</a><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/oj4wYbiP6V8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/oj4wYbiP6V8</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Egypt</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> 'Far from Egypt’s busy capital, minority communities are struggling to preserve and protect their unique culture and languages from extinction.'<a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseAl-Monitor: Copts, Nubians, and Berbers fight to keep Egypt’s endangered languages alive. “With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is home to distinct minorities with their own traditions, beliefs and languages that have enriched Egypt’s cultural identity for millennia. Some of these languages are on the brink of extinction, however, and some of their speakers are refusing to let […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/al-monitor-copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-to-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/23/al-monitor-copts-nubians-and-berbers-fight-to-keep-egypts-endangered-languages-alive/</a>

MiriamI have mostly finished my Catalan studies for the course (one class remains due to schedule issues), and I am willing to get up to a B1 level during 2026, but for the rest of the year I want to do something new.I feel like going back to programming could be nice, but I have a huge imposter syndrome since I have tried 2 times already to master Golang as my main language.Ansible could be cool, since I have Jeff Geerling's book.On a more non-tech scope, I wanted to learn longboarding (after my injury last year) or drawing both digital and traditional.I am open to suggestions on any of these ideas, or facts to help me decide, because my mind is filled with anxiety related to decission making this year.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programminglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programminglife</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drawing</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/longboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#longboard</a>

Inautilo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Development</a> CSS hyphens, words, syllables, and languages · Why hyphenation depends on HTML ‘lang’ attributes <a href="https://ilo.im/165gwj" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ilo.im/165gwj</a>_____ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hyphenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hyphenation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Text</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Content</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frontend</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a>

Marcos Dione<a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NatureMC</a> I foumd that knowing French (which is probably the most different bezidesmRomajian) and another latin language (Spanish in my case) helps at least reading all the others (except Romanian, sorry). The other day I comnected Català's "amb" ("with") with Spanish's "también" ("also").<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a>

Petra van CronenburgI just read a post that was confusing to me: I thought, why are there so many strange spellings? A French dialect that I didn't know yet? The search engine said: it's Catalan. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language#History" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language#History</a> And now I either need a coffee or a thank you to my etymological brain centre, which deciphered and understood a few things. :blobcatcoffee: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Languages</a> are fascinating!<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

celtgreeklatinHow many languages do you think in? Sure, natural languages only.Me - 3. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bilingual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bilingual</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multilingual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multilingual</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poll</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/langues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#langues</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a>

celtgreeklatinceltgreeklatin flashcards Breton Content is available under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en</a> Baie de Saint Brieuc 📷 Colsu This file is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/breton?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#breton</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/breizh?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#breizh</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bzh?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bzh</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bretagne?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bretagne</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/france?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#france</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linguistique?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistique</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/studying?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#studying</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/flashcards?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flashcards</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/learning?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/languages?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linguistics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

The Language GarageJ’entends les grillons. I hear crickets. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> vocabulary for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/summer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#summer</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LearnFrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LearnFrench</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Languages</a>. Click to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#learn</a> more: <a href="https://thelanguagegarage.com/summer-in-french/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelanguagegarage.com/summer-in-french/</a>

Win :debian: :dateapp:ตอนที่ ๑: ขอม & เขมรผมก็ยัง งง อยู่ว่าทำไมคนถึงชอบพูดว่า "ขอม ≠ เขมร" เพราะถ้าเราลองมาดูดี ๆ เราจะเห็นว่าอักษร "เขมรโบราณ" (สมัยอังกอร์ Angkorian Khmer Period - รูป ๑) มีความคล้ายคลึงกับอักษร "เขมรปัจจุบัน" มากกว่าอักษร "สุโขทัย" (รูป ๓) สมัยพ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราชเสียอีก แล้วก็อย่าลืมว่าอักษร "สุโขทัย" ก็มาจากอักษร "เขมรโบราณ" อีกทีนะ !การที่บอกว่า "ขอมคือไทย" แล้วมาบอกว่า "เขมรได้มาจากไทยอีกที" ผมก็ต้องถามว่า... แล้วทำไมอักษร "เขมรปัจจุบัน" ถึงทีความคล้ายคลึงกับอักษร "เขมรโบราณ" มากกว่าอักษรไท-สยามปัจจุบันหรือสุโขทัยเสียอีก ??? ถ้าได้มาจากไท-สยามจริง ๆ ตัวอักษรเขมรปัจจุบันก็น่าจะคล้ายของไท-สยามมากกว่า "เขมรโบราณ" อีกนะแล้วผมต้องย้ำเป็นรอบที่หนึ่งล้านว่า... นักวิชาการทั่วโลกต่างใช้คำว่า "เขมร / ขแมร์ / Khmer" ในการกล่าวถึงอาณาจักร "พระนคร" หรือ "Khmer Empire" ทั้งสิ้น เท่าที่ผมเห็นคือ คำว่า "ขอม" จะใช้เฉพาะแค่การกล่าวถึงอักษร "ขอมไทย" (ชื่อเฉพาะ) + มันเป็นคำสยาม-ลาวที่ไว้เรียก "อารยธรรมอังกอร์" หรือ "อาณาจักรเขมรโบาณ" / Khmer Empire เท่านั้นเอง !ดังนั้น ผมจึงไม่เห็นสาเหตุใด ๆ ที่คนสยามต้องมาร้องห่มร้องไห้ เสียใจ ช้ำใจกับการที่อักษร "ไท-สยาม" / "ไทยกลาง" มีต้นกำเนิดมาจากอักษรเขมรโบราณเลย นี่คือธรรมชาติของระบบอักษรครับ ประเทศคุณอยู่ติดกันมันก็แหงอยู่แล้วว่าต่างฝ่ายต่างได้รับอิทธิพลจากซึ่งกันและกัน เราเป็นมนุษย์ด้วยกัน รักกันไว้เถอะนะครับ<a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/thai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thai</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/siamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#siamese</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/khmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#khmer</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/cambodia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cambodia</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Win :debian: :dateapp:<a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/khmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#khmer</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/angkor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#angkor</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/cambodia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cambodia</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a>

ChasMusic (he/him)Just passed 4,300 tracks in my Infectious Multilingual playlist. Eclectic feel-good music in dozens of languages.<a href="https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLdlgvDfBTAJb2Jx86sRBuOQqh-mcJN0y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLdlgvDfBTAJb2Jx86sRBuOQqh-mcJN0y</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/music" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@music</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/languagelovers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@languagelovers</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/SelfCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfCare</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a>

Arthur Hau, PhD🐶🐱🌱🎵🦣After getting seriously frustrated with these modern <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a>, Claude4 Sonnet and I decided to create a fully modularized, true OOP with no class, no interface, no override, no thisStream, athstream, whateverStream, no_this_kind_of_silly_names. Array, string, matrix are primitive data types. There is no Inheritance but Emulation. These is no pointer, no alloc. Memory will be allocated when a variable is declared and destroyed when the variable is out of scope. It is called Sunya.

JiKoWhen do you turn on subtitles while watching on your TV or portable device?<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polls</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SubTitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SubTitles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Captions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Captions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TVshows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TVshows</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Films</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TVseries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TVseries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Survey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TVdramas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TVdramas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poll</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/VOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VOD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Streaming</a>

Jessie (they/she) 🍓 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉No se por qué, pero no hay nada como hablando en español con mis amigos. Es una experiencia muy especial para mí.Supongo es porque… nunca pensé que seria capaz de hablar un otro idioma. Siempre parecía imposible. Pero después de 5 años? Puedo tener conversaciones para horas y horas con gente de Latinoamérica. Es estresante? Sí. Puedo entender todo? No. Pero en mi nivel, siento que un día en donde puedo comunicar y escucha bien es cerca! <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spanish</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a>

Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏What about you? What is your superpower? 🤪 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Comic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThrowbackThursday</a>

Rost Glukhov<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Popularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Popularity</a> comparison of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> tools, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a>, IDEs, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cloud</a> providers and CI/CD tools - Extract from Pragmatic Engineer <a href="https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/07/popularity-of-ai-tools-programming-languages-ides-cloud-providers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/07/popularity-of-ai-tools-programming-languages-ides-cloud-providers/</a>

Florian<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> can be so much fun if you really start thinking about common idoms and how much context they sometimes require. Dutch: "je bent een lekker ding" fellow Dutch: "they just called me hot" Foreigner: "...did you just call me a tasty thing? The f*ck is wrong with you?" <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#showerthoughts</a>

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