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Tigrinya–English Picture Dictionary
I was browsing the web when I found an excellent new e-book entitled: “Tigrinya – English Picture Dictionary” by eritreanrefugees.org. It’s primarily designed for native Tigrigna speakers who want to learn English, but it can work in both directions. Also since it’s a picture dictionary you get to see images of the things/descriptions/actions that are being translated and [...]
November 3, 2010
Tags: Printable English-Tigrigna Dictionary, Tigrigna, tigrinya Posted in: Eritrea, language, Linguistics, Tigrigna 
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Two linguists talk about language…
September 18, 2010
Tags: BENJAMIN ZIMMER, JOHN MCWHORTER, video Posted in: language, Linguistics No Comments
Linguistic diversity; good thing… or the cause of African poverty!!
Heh silly/hyperbolic blog titles aside, this is the rough question that was posed then brutally slapped away by Greg Downey of Neuroanthropology. Check it out. It’s a good, solid and thorough post on the subject of linguistic diversity; one which I don’t think I could paraphrase without missing a couple of huge chunks. However here are a [...]
July 26, 2010
Tags: Greg Downey, neuroanthropology Posted in: Africa, Eritrea, language, Linguistics One Comment
A rather biased definition…?
When I saw this, I had to share it with everyone; (from Toothpaste for Dinner, 5/27/2010): H/T: Language log
May 28, 2010
Tags: pic Posted in: Linguistics, Miscellaneous No Comments
A linguist on communication
Here’s a link to a New York Times piece on French linguist Claude Hagège (author of On the Death and Life of Languages) and a few questions about his thoughts on the future of communication. It’s an interesting read.
December 18, 2009
Tags: Claude Hagège, link Posted in: Linguistics No Comments
Two Years!
It’s been two wonderful years of Tigrigna lexicography bliss, as this December marks the second anniversary of memhr.org In the beginning this website started as just a weird hobby of mine and today it continues as such; I can’t stress this enough, telling myself that this is “just a hobby” is the one rule in [...]
December 2, 2009
Tags: anniversary Posted in: language, Linguistics, website update No Comments
When spam gets hella-strange
Since I run a Tigrigna language teaching website, I get a lot of emails from many different people who are (like myself) amateur Tigrigna language enthusiasts; but this latest e-mail is the first spam-bot email I have ever received. It’s very bizarre, so I hope you find some humour in it…. ***emailremoved@yahoo.com*** Am Juliet,a tall [...]
October 28, 2009
Tags: spam-bot Posted in: language, Linguistics No Comments
IPA
IPA stands for the International Phonetic Alphabet. It’s the universal script that linguists use to map out the phonetic sounds of every word in every language in the world. So (theoretically) if you are familiar with the IPA you can perfectly read out loud, any text, in any language, perfectly, as long as that text [...]
July 14, 2009
Tags: dictionary, IPA Posted in: Linguistics, Tigrigna, website update 2 Comments
The top ten search queries for ለካቲት (February)
I thought I would post something today that might interest some of you out there. Here is a list of the top 10 most searched words for the dictionary section this last month. Enjoy and feel the love… 1 love 2 hello 3 i 4 you 5 boy 6 to 7 train 8 ፍቕሪ 9 [...]
February 22, 2009
Tags: top ten Posted in: Linguistics, top ten search queries One Comment
“Modern Dictionary with New Methods”
Come one, come all. There is a new dictionary for sale in Asmara. It’s by Dr. Kidanemariam and he worked 10 years to make it a reality. Just amazing. A new monolingual, Tigrinya-Tigrinya, dictionary entitled, roughly translated into “Modern Dictionary with New Method,” by Dr. Kidanemariam Zerezghi was launched on October 24, 2008 at Emba [...]
October 27, 2008
Tags: Dr. Kidanemariam, tigrinya, Tigrinya-Tigrinya dictionary Posted in: Eritrea, language, Linguistics, Tigrigna One Comment
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