"By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans & Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. Instead, they will be forced to use Mandarin Chinese"
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Applications are now open for Trinity Term 2026 classes with our Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages! Be sure to #Apply by noon on Apr. 10th, UK time!
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I tell my students that I have unanswered emails that are older than them
New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast with Buryat architect, activist and artist Seseg Jigjitova. We’ve been conversing for a while, from Berlin to Mediterranean. Then we sat down in a small bedroom and poured our hearts out. This is a special episode. Take a listen.
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applying for a high-level grant on reinjecting whimsy into academic publication. publishing a paper in Nature with 127 authors about how we could have more 6-page papers called Some divers Conſiderations upon Peat-moß; to which is ſubjoined, a tranſscription of the Goſpel of John in Old Low Polabian
"Under the new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, while minority languages may still be taught as a second language, groups such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native tongues for core subjects in schools and universities."
If the Iraq war gave CCP a chance to ride the bandwagon w/ Bush & Co & crush Uighur dissent under the "terrorism" pre-text, the new regional war in Middle East is apparently giving Beijing another opportunity to finish the cultural genocide of minorities including Mongols.
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邁入嶄新時代? ctext.org announced today that AI translations of "all texts in the pre-Qin and Han corpus that previously lacked translations, the 25 dynastic histories, as well as hundreds of other historical, literary, philosophical and poetic works" have been added today: (1/2)
This article finds that 5% of sentiment-bearing words switched polarity between 1850 and 2000. Examples include "lean" (weak > masculine) and "pathetic" (passionate > weak).
Interested in the settlement history of the Baltic Sea region? There’s a free online course with the University of Tartu, starting next week: sisu.ut.ee/eestijuured/...
#DOTD: Zhao Yuanren 趙元任 (Yuen Ren Chao, 1892–1982), Chinese-American linguist. Earning degrees from Harvard and Cornell, he later taught at UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University. One of the Four Great Masters of National Learning #國學四大導師, he revolutionised #ChineseLinguistics
‘A writer and advocate for Mongolian identity and culture, Hada spent 15 years in prison, starting in 1995, for protecting and promoting Mongolian culture, and endured round-the-clock surveillance after his release’
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So WHERE in the world can you still do a fully funded PhD in Japan Studies?....
...oh yeah, right here! 👇
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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
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CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
Besides Finnish this appears as a loan also in Estonian (köök) and Livonian (kēk), both via Low German.
CALL FOR PAPERS: The 39th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics
Organised by the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO), JLAO 39 will be held from June 17 to 18, 2026 at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers and online.
Deadline for abstracts submission: 2026/3/31
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Don't want to get my hopes up, but this sounds genuinely exciting. The seventh century is one of the most important era's in Western Eurasian history, witnessing the rise of Islam, the end of Ancient Persia, and the dramatic reduction of Eastern Rome losing its status as Mediterranean Empire.
Recently digitised and Open Access: The Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Papers, covering 1927-1930. Includes course, committee, and conference materials.
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Russia is conducting multiple genocides in real time. As the article points out, it's simply the continuation of Soviet policies.
#decolonizeRussia
New open-access book: 𝘙𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢: 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki. Download it as PDF or Epub on our Environment & Society Portal. #EnvHum
🗣️ La collection #Pangloss offre, en libre accès, des documents linguistiques sonores, avec une spécialité de langues rares ou peu étudiées.
🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
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Ha – „du Dommelprojekt“ je jara wužitne wudmo, to dyrbju sej měrkować 😎
これはドイツWanderer-Werke製のモンゴル文字タイプライター
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
"Chinese government is targeting Mongolian language & culture in certain online spaces, systematically dismantling important digital communities where Mongolian identity exists, acc to PEN America & Southern Mongolian Human Rights Info Center."
#SaveMongolianLanguage
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