Language Log: Chechens, Czechs, whatever
"Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack", 4/19/2013: As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a stark...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Dungan: a Sinitic language written with the Cyrillic alphabet
The Dungan people are a group of Sinitic speakers whose Muslim ancestors fled to Central Asia (mainly in parts of what are now Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan) over a century ago when the Qing (Manchu)...
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