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Language variation : papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff ; [edited by] David Bradley ... [et al.]

Hmong secret languages : themes and variations / Martha Ratliff -- Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications / ...
Global Voices Online

July 7 declared World Kiswahili Language Day: A new project seeks to better understand present day dialectal variations in Swahili

In November 2021 during its 41st Session in Paris, UNESCO Member States declared July 7th World Kiswahili Language Day. Kiswahili — also known as Swahili — is a Bantu language native to Eastern and ...
MIT Technology Review

Why the “y’all” line divides the US north from south, not east from west

One of the curious features of language is that it varies from one place to another. Even among speakers of the same language, regional variations are common, and the divide between these regions can ...
The Conversation

Research on 2,400 languages shows nearly half the world’s language diversity is at risk

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