Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
26.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Collaborative Interactive and Applied Linguistic Links project (CIALL) recorded its most productive year yet in the 2024-25 academic session.. the continuing partnership with Island Voices saw new links created with Catalan, Caribbean Creole, and Farsi interests..
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19.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
16.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 5
Catalan Collection
Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo is the third member of the multilingual poetic partnership pulled together by Martin MacIntyre for his “A’ ruith eadar dà dhràgon” collection of poems in four languages, in which…
Noèlia writes “The project ‘Island Voices’ is more than an educational tool or a literary collection of poetic voices. It is a necessary dialogue between cultures." This means we now have five videos in total in our Catalan Selection among all our Other Tongues!
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15.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Audrey West - Storiel
Audrey West discussing her artistic response to the commission
Language issues in the mix here in the Storiel.cymru Collections, with a nice wee plug appended to Island Voices' outreach work... 🙂
www.storiel.cymru/audrey-west/
23.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Duncan Ban in the Park
The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park. Friends of Queen’s Park inv…
"... we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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19.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seán Ó Con Ceanainn (2)
Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rás…
Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of #Irish and #Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. #Gaeilge
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11.08.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Guth Thormoid: Norman’s Voice
The Island Voices project is featured in the new book “Foundational approaches to Celtic Linguistics”, through a chapter on the late Norman Maclean by Gordon Wells. This volume is a fir…
"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!"
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14.07.2025 10:20 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Island Voices at NATECLA 2025
The recently completed Island Voices project “Multilingual Memories: Birmingham 1984” was on prominent display at this year’s annual conference of NATECLA, the National Association for Teaching Eng…
"The Island Voices documentary, in tracing the life stories of ILT workers and how their careers developed and diversified, reinforces the point that multilingualism is an established fact of UK life, and always has been."
#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/i...
01.07.2025 10:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Island Voices Videos
Ifor ap Glyn: Cuimreach à Lunnainn
Video number 500(!) from Guthan nan Eilean introduces Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. Martin MacIntyre narrates in Gaelic. Part of a suite of clips featuring poetry, documentary video, and unscripted conversation. (Full details in the YouTube video description.)
youtu.be/F_XocPUtEIY
25.06.2025 18:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ifor ap Glyn: Welshman from London
Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Gut…
Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean Extensions project supported by CIALL.
Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
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24.06.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Students at the University of Glasgow studying in the library
New Gaelic Project
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
23.06.2025 17:05 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Jimí agus Pádraig updated
In the continuing collaboration through CIALL with Irish partners on Stòras Beò nan Gàidheal/Taisce Bheo na nGael we’re delighted to host two more recordings (Parts 3 and 4) of Jimí Chearra a…
"... It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. In an additional challenge for Scottish Gaelic speakers, the descriptions are offered in Irish!..."
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09.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is offering a new, fully-funded PhD opportunity titled "Navigating Modernity: Strategies to protect local language, indigenous knowledge, and cultural biodiversity". #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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03.06.2025 12:16 — 👍 43 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 2
Gaelic Shorts
While recording natural conversational speech of fluent Gaelic speakers over the past couple of years, we have taken to also “scaffolding” these clips for the benefit of any Gaelic learners or non-…
While recording natural conversational speech of fluent #Gaelic speakers over the past couple of years, we have taken to also “scaffolding” these clips for the benefit of any Gaelic learners or non-speakers who wish to follow them as well... #Gàidhlig
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27.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Caibeal agus Cladh
Tommy Macdonald of Howmore in South Uist delivers a Gaelic guided tour of the old chapels and graveyard, dating at least as far back as the 9th Century, and shares some stories about the burial pra…
Tommy has been the central figure in creating a series of clips looking at local houses and ruins, recording stories associated with them, and talking to people with experience of living in taighean-tughaidh (thatched houses) in particular. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic
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21.05.2025 10:19 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jamaikèn nan Wales
“Men Audrey West, e men lakay li.” (This is Audrey West, and this is her home.) So begins the new Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen) version of our Jamaican in Wales/Jamiekan ina Wielz documentary. We…
We’re delighted to add another island language - Haitian Creole - to our growing list of Other Tongues... In addition to Jamaican and English, this film is also already available in Welsh and Portuguese – as well as Gaelic, of course!
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/j...
20.05.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Artist and researcher C18th Highlands / Badenoch / Gaelic / Gàidhlig. Troimh chèile, aobhairean teignigeach.
She/her I/ise
Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 11 (2026) aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu: 14–16 Iuchar 2026
Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 11 (2026) at the University of Glasgow: 14–16 July 2026
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com
I'm an effective altruist mainly reading and boosting posts, but occasionally I'll muse and doodle about effective altruism. I take a balanced approach, so will highlight under-represented views—my opinions will no doubt become apparent :)
I write for Tuairisc.ie and post in English and Irish. Cyclist. 🎶Ceol. Hurling. Deep down quite shallow. Abuse and disinformation blocked.
Iománaí ar an gclaí. 🟩⬜️🟪
Studying Scottish Gaelic and Highland History
Retired engineer
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Gàidhealtachd
Minority language academic. Link to Gaelic Crisis book: https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/res-themes/humanities-and-arts/language-sciences-institute/news/free-online-access-to-gaelic-crisis-book.html
PhD student, crafter, Sgitheanach (not always in that order)
Research: 19thC women, Highlands and Islands, crofting & land agitation
- biol-/archaeologist, "Celtic Studies", "you should write"
- profile pic: postcard by Andreas Bloch, Norway, c. 1905, sometimes used to represent Aud/Unn the Deep-Minded
- background image by Joseph Farquharson of Scotland: "Sheep Feeding", c.1890, 1911
Author, photographer, traveller, husband, father, grandfather and lover of Scotland and all things Scottish.
Website: https://www.kenlussey.com/
Historian of 19thC #textiles, #design, and #art; #Britain and the #BritishEmpire.
• Adjunct Prof., University of Prince Edward Island.
• Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
Everything language & culture #langsky
Talking about:
- Learning another language
- Adopting a second culture
- Living the international life
I’ve studied over 50 languages - some a little, some a lot
I believe in human unity & coffee ☕️
Research librarian & linguist, crafter and textile enthusiast. I post about linguistics, digital humanities, & critical AI literacy. Always interested in amplifying marginalized voices. She/her. 📍Trondheim, Norway
Gael. Mac léinn PhD, ag iniúchadh na bhfireannachtaí i ngearrscéalta Mháirtín Uí Chadhain. Riarthóir i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh Mhá Nuad.
Academic geographer on a long journey. Coventry kid, washed up on Ireland's shore. Interests in bench marks, industrial archaeology, maps and mapping, new towns, landscape histories, medieval stuff, pottering about on my bike, being outdoors 🚵
18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon
Support your local libraries. Read how you read. Support artists any way you can.
Knitting, reading, writing, spinning, weaving, cooking, and learning, usually to a soundtrack.
