Walker is a research consultant with the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative on the New South Wales mid-north coast, which supports the revitalisation of languages from seven regional Aboriginal communities.
We hear and feel the mix of peoples, religions, and languages from four continents that make the place electric and always on the verge of unraveling.
In the most oppressive years of apartheid, ideologists of white minority rule separated not just blacks and whites, but blacks who spoke different languages from one another, even segregating state-controlled radio into stations for speakers of each language.
A freelance writer and polyglot, she has reported in three languages from four continents.
We estimated the entropy for a large collection of texts belonging to eight languages from five linguistic families and one language isolate.
We have had posts in four different languages from fourteen different countries (Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Scotland, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, USA) and every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
Each assistant could read and speak a minimum of two languages from the three languages used in this study.
Before becoming 10th prime minister of a fractious democracy, PV Narasimha Rao campaigned in three languages, won from three states and was more connected to the grassroots than most modern-day Indian leaders.
Marr took his ideas further in 1924, proposing a monogenetic theory of language: all languages evolved from one original made up of four basic elements (sal, ber, yon, rosh).
