Tigrinya and Gioia Cacchioli

11/26/23 • 37 min

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It's time for the fourteenth and penultimate episode of the first series of ALILI, in which Gioia Cacchioli joins me to talk about Tigrinya, a Semitic and syntactically striking language of eastern Africa. Gioia introduces the language, its family tree, its word-building, its use of the Ge'ez script, and how she came to love Tigrinya.

Here's Gioia's website: ⁠https://gioiacacchioli.com/⁠

The word of the episode: abugida (⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida⁠)

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Gioia Cacchioli

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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Here's Gioia's website: ⁠https://gioiacacchioli.com/⁠

The word of the episode: abugida (⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida⁠)

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Gioia Cacchioli

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welsh and Victoria Noble

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Here's episode 13 and it's all about Welsh! Victoria Noble, a PhD researcher in the semantics of Welsh and Arabic, joins me to share her enthusiasm and admiration for the Welsh language, discussing both its cool linguistic features and the difficult details of its history.

Note from Victoria: the annual population survey mentioned at 8:02 is from 2023, not 2003.

You can find Victoria on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/LinguisVic

Host: Danny Bate

Guest: Victoria Noble

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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Old Irish and Danny Bate

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It's episode 15 and the finale of the first series of ALILI! To mark the occasion, the tables have been turned and your usual host now finds himself on the receiving end of the format he created, as Krishnan Ram-Prasad rejoins the show to interview me about the amazing Old Irish language. We dive into what this language is, who spoke it, who wrote in it, and why it's terrifying at first but actually rather wonderful.

Books to get you started!

- Sengoidelc by David Stifter: ⁠https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/1022/sengoidelc/⁠

A Student's Companion to Old Irish grammar by Ranke de Vries: ⁠https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Se7VzQEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions⁠

Host: Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad

Guest: Danny Bate

Music: Bossa Nova by William_King

Artwork: William Marler

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