Cuisine and Language 5. Expanding and Contracting
Linguists have analyzed when and how languages expand. Only rarely is it by the natural growth of the original group that speaks the language (the Pacific Island case). More often…
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Most people in the world are bilingual (though of course famously not English speakers). Among the strong incentives for becoming fluent in two languages are growing up or marrying into…
Read moreCuisine and Language 1: Inventories
OK, now let’s begin on ten of the things that food historians might learn from historical linguistics. Linguists estimate that there are somewhere between three thousand and ten thousand living…
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