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Language of addiction
When confronting addiction, the power of language is important to support successful mind, specialists say.
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Changes to our writing
Researchers recovered that erstwhile radical usage predictive substance systems—programs that suggest words oregon phrases—their penning becomes much succinct, much predictable, and little colorful.
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Accurate naming
In 2020, the Entomological Society of America voted to remove “gypsy moth” and “gypsy ant” from a database of communal names utilized to notation to insects.
An illustration of a khipu
Incan khipus
Harvard researchers are utilizing precocious signifier recognition techniques to decipher khipus, knotted cord devices utilized for Inca grounds keeping, which whitethorn assistance decode the past connection of the Incas.
Yuchi
When Richard Grounds began his enactment determination were less than 2 twelve fluent, first-language speakers of Yuchi, but that’s each changing acknowledgment to his Euchee/Yuchi Language Project.
Quechua
Américo Mendoza-Mori, manager of Harvard’s Latinx Studies Working Group, co-founded The Quechua Alliance, a conjugation that hosts yearly gatherings to beforehand Quechua and Andean civilization passim the U.S.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl was the lingua franca of the Aztecs, who ruled Mexico betwixt the 14th and 16th centuries. It is inactive spoken by astir 1.5 cardinal Mexicans and has a increasing Harvard survey radical dedicated to it called Nahuatl Notequixpoyohuan oregon “My Nahuatl Friends.”
Griko
Griko, a connection of Greek origins spoken successful Salento—part of the “heel” of Italy’s boot—was deemed by the Italian authorities to beryllium a “language of the backward past” until 1999, erstwhile a nationalist instrumentality recognized Griko among 12 “historical linguistic minorities” successful Italy.
Naxi
One of the past wide utilized pictographic languages successful the world, the written connection of the Dongba, an taste number successful southwest China, is being digitized by Harvard-Yenching Library and shared with scholars successful China to sphere records of the customs, spiritual practices, and regular beingness of the Naxi people.
A Naxi manuscript
Planting the seeds of a 2nd language
Exposing children to overseas languages, either successful schoolhouse oregon astatine home, could pb to cognitive benefits that volition past their full life.
Bilingualism and dementia
A increasing assemblage of grounds suggests that lifelong bilingualism is associated with the delayed diagnosis of dementia. But the interaction of connection acquisition connected encephalon enactment has not been good understood.
Supporting students arsenic they larn a 2nd language
Research shows that supporting a student’s archetypal connection volition assistance the pupil larn to work successful English. Educators tin promote household members to prosecute successful connection and literacy activities successful their autochthonal languages.
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