A Language I Love Is...

Episode 11 of ALILI sees us back beside the Baltic Sea, where Dr Francis Young guides us into the story of Lithuania and the Lithuanian language. Francis discusses both history and prehistory in detail, and joyously shares some rather wrong ideas that people have held about the origin of this Indo-European language.

To learn more from Francis, here's his ⁠website⁠ and ⁠Twitter⁠.

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Dr Francis Young

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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Episode 2 of ALILI and it's time to head back to ancient Mesopotamia and hear all about Akkadian, an influential lingua franca of the ancient world. Old it may be, but Akkadian still has much to tell us about its many cousin languages still spoken to this day. Akkadian expert Iris Kamil both introduces and shares a little of her boundless enthusiasm for the language and its surprisingly relatable sources.

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Iris Kamil

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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ALILI has reached episode 30 and the end of two whole series! To mark the occasion, the show has the privilege to host a star of public linguistics, Dr. Lauren Gawne, one of the two fabulous co-hosts of the hit podcast Lingthusiasm. Lauren is here to lead the show into a new part of the world and a new language family, namely Yolmo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal. Lauren takes us through the modern state of the language, her profound connection to it, and the grammatical phenomenon of evidentiality.

Enter the word of Lingthusiasm here: ⁠⁠https://lingthusiasm.com/⁠⁠

Lauren's personal website: ⁠⁠https://laurengawne.com/⁠⁠

Host: Dr. Danny Bate

Guest: Dr. Lauren Gawne

Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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We're back! The first episode of an all-new series of the language-loving podcast is here at last.

Since one of the co-stars of the hit podcast Lingthusiasm concluded the second series, it seemed only right that the other co-star should kick off the third. Gretchen McCulloch – linguist, podcaster and author of Because Internet – joins me to navigate the linguistic complexities of Canada, specifically in the city of Montreal.

This episode is part sociolinguistic survey, part survival guide for how to speak in Quebec, and Gretchen expertly and warmly takes us through Canadian bilingualism and her own experiences and perspectives of it.

Join the ALILI Patreon here: patreon.com/ALanguageILoveIs

Gretchen's personal website: https://gretchenmcculloch.com/

Lingthusiasm's website: https://lingthusiasm.com/

Host: Dr. Danny Bate

Guest: Gretchen McCulloch

Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden

Music: Acoustic Guitar by William King

Artwork: William Marler

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The third episode of this second series is a Biblical bonanza, as Dr Benjamin Suchard comes on the show to introduce the linguistic world of Biblical Hebrew. We discuss the language's history, its family tree, its layer of loanwords and external influences, and how human this holy language can be.

Benjamin's website: ⁠https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/⁠

Benjamin's Academia page: ⁠https://kuleuven.academia.edu/BenjaminSuchard⁠

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Dr Benjamin Suchard

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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