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Linguitect episodes

  • Episode 2: Problems with the IPA

    In this episode, Matt and Rowan (but mostly Matt) talk about issues with the International Phonetic Alphabet, and why it's not a one-size-fits-all for every language.

    Resources mentioned or relevant to this issue:

    https://phoible.org/

    http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~saphon/en/phonemes.php

    https://magurevitch.github.io/clickable-ipa/

    38 min
  • Episode 1: Honorifics

    In this episode, we talk about honorific systems in different languages, and how to work them into your conlang!

    This episode is just Rowan and Matt, and Matt's introduction is of the multiple honorific systems in Korean.

    Wikipedia pages on Korean honorifics:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_speech_levels

    Victor Mair's post on royal language in English and Nepali:

    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=21466

    31 min

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