Ling Lore @linglore

The #history and #geography of #languages, #alphabets, and #writing systems; #Indigenous and minority languages; #language families; #linguistics; #toponyms Joined January 2019

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Ling Lore @linglore

5 years ago

#Bungi is a (perhaps extinct) #creole #language that was spoken in #Manitoba by around 5,000 #Métis people of mixed #indigenous and #Scottish #Canadian descent. Bungi combines elements of #ScottishEnglish, #Orcadian #Scots, Scottish #Gaelic, #French, #Norn, #Cree, and #Ojibwe.

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#Vinland was likely near the Gulf of St Lawrence. #Norse ruins dating to ~1000 have been found at L'Anse aux Meadows in #Newfoundland. Norse #sagas also refer to #Markland, perhaps #Labrador; and to #Helluland, perhaps #BaffinIsland, where probably-#Viking artefacts were found.

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5 years ago

The #Métis people of #Canada and the #UnitedStates are descendants of #indigenous women (mainly #Cree, #Nakota, and #Ojibwe), and fur trade workers of mainly #French and #Scottish #Canadian ancestry. #Manitoba has Canada's highest percentage (7.3%) of residents who are Métis.

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6 years ago

Blown off course in 986, Bjarni Herjólfsson spotted land west of 🇬🇱#Greenland. Intrigued by the discovery, #Leif Erikson, son of #ErikTheRed, bought Bjarni's ship and led en expedition. He established a #Norse settlement in the land he called #Vinland in present-day 🇨🇦#Canada.

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6 years ago

🇲🇩#Moldova celebrates the 31st of August as #LimbaNoastră (Our Language), marking the day in 1989 when mass demonstrations compelled the Moldavian #Soviet Socialist Republic to make #Moldovan (a variety of #Romanian) written in the #Latin script the republic's official #language.

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6 years ago

The 29th of August is #TeluguLanguageDay, marking the birthday in 1863 of Gidugu Ramamurthy, a writer and one of the earliest #Telugu #linguists. He championed the use of commonly understood #languages as opposed to an elite scholastic language. [Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidugu_Ve…]

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5 years ago

#Dauphin is a small city of ~8.1K people in western #Manitoba. Nearly 35% of its population is ethnically #Ukrainian. 8.5% of residents claim Ukrainian as their mother tongue. Ukrainian #Catholic Church of the Resurrection in Dauphin: [Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukra…]

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6 years ago

"#Atlamál in grœnlenzku" is an #OldNorse #Edda (heroic poem) believed to have been composed in 🇬🇱#Greenland in the 12th century. It's a murderous tale about #AttilaTheHun and his wife and inlaws. Atlamál is included in the #CodexRegius, an #Icelandic collection of #Norse poems.

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5 years ago

#Steinbach, #Manitoba was founded in 1874 by #Mennonites who spoke #Plautdietsch, a Low #Prussian #dialect of East Low #German influenced by #Dutch. 22.5% of the city's 15,829 residents reported German as their mother tongue in 2016. Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach:

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Ling Lore @linglore

6 years ago

A #runic "r" with sloping branches is particularly characteristic of #Greenlandic #Norse. Only two such inscriptions have been found outside 🇬🇱#Greenland: one in #Trondheim, 🇳🇴#Norway and one in #Orphir, #Orkney, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#Scotland; perhaps carved by #Greenlanders who sailed to #Europe.

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5 years ago

#Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of #Manitoba 🇨🇦#Canada. (2016 metropolitan area population ~778.5K) Mother tongue: #English: 69.0% #Tagalog: 5.8% #French: 3.5% #German: 2.3% It has the greatest percentage of #Filipino residents (8.7%) of any major #Canadian city.

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Ling Lore @linglore

6 years ago

The #Kingittorsuaq #Runestone is the longest inscription of #Greenlandic #Norse, showing both "hl" and the "t" substitution for "þ". It was made far north of the #Norse settlements, probably by explorers. The final signs are unrecognised, not part of any known #runic #alphabet.

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Ling Lore @linglore

5 years ago

According to the 2016 census, 31,090 people in #Manitoba (~2.4% of the population) trace their roots to #Iceland. The vast majority of them speak #English. However, a respectable minority of 475 #Manitobans reported #Icelandic as their mother tongue.

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6 years ago

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6 years ago

#Greenlandic #Norse was the variety of Old West Norse spoken in the Norse settlements of 🇬🇱#Greenland. It used a "t" where most other varieties of #OldNorse used "þ", and retained some features like "hl", "hr", and "œ" that most other varieties lost.

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5 years ago

#OjiCree is a #dialect of #Ojibwe with minor #Cree influence resulting from historic intermarriage of the two cultures. Just over half of its speakers live in #Manitoba. Most of the rest live in #Ontario. #StTheresaPoint, an Oji-Cree community: [Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._…]

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Ling Lore @linglore

6 years ago

Southern 🇬🇱#Greenland was apparently uninhabited when Erik the Red arrived. Around 985, he returned with #Viking settlers from 🇮🇸#Iceland and established several villages along the southwestern fjords, which at the time were surrounded by forest.

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6 years ago

🇦🇿#Azerbaijan observes the 1st of August as #Azerbaijani #Language and #Alphabet Day.

Ling Lore @linglore

7 years ago

🇦🇿#Azerbaijan observes the 1st of August as #Azerbaijani #Language and #Alphabet Day.

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Ling Lore @linglore

5 years ago

#Manitoba, 🇨🇦#Canada by mother tongue: (2016 population ~1.3M) #English: 71.4% #German: 5.1% #Tagalog: 3.8% #French: 3.2% #Punjabi: 1.5% 2.2% of the province's inhabitants speak #indigenous #languages, mostly Central #Algonquian languages including #Cree and #Ojibwe.

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6 years ago

🇹🇭#Thailand observes the 29th of July as #NationalThaiLanguageDay. #Thai belongs to the #Tai branch of the Kra-Dai #language family, but over half of its vocabulary derives from #Austroasiatic (#Mon, Old #Khmer), #IndoEuropean (#Pali, #Sanskrit), and #SinoTibetan #languages.

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6 years ago

13th century #Norse #sagas say 🇳🇴#Norway banished Thorvald Asvaldsson around 960 "because of some killings". He moved to 🇮🇸#Iceland with his son, Erik the Red. In 982 Iceland banished Erik for three years (also for murders). He spent his exile exploring southern 🇬🇱#Greenland.