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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 18h

The Babel Lecture 2026 presents Henry Normal - 'Poetry, Comedy and a Greater Truth' At @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, Thursday 12 November. Free admission, but please sign up: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 09/10/2026

The family tree for Indo-European languages, from Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social (Note that this tree is based on a 1973 book, so it doesn’t represent the current consensus about branching etc.)

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Claudia Bensi on the influence of Dutch on American English Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

Babel article: How Dutch influenced US language and society

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hosting the annual @babelzine.bsky.social Lecture at @uonenglish.bsky.social on 12th November Henry Normal: ‘Poetry, Comedy and a Greater Truth’ Free admission but strictly ticketed - sign up here: tinyurl.com/NormalBabel

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

30 September 2026 is International Translation Day Back in Babel No2, Nicole Y Adams told us all about life as a translator

Meet the professionals: Translator Nicole Y Adams

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Niamh Holland on a mix of Korean and English Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Daniel Strogen on the language of Love Island Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the latest Babel, Gabriela Valenzuela discusses her work on why some of us are particularly good at learning languages

Babel article: Learning a second language

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2027)! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch Have a question? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In the new Babel, Mireia Llinàs-Grau looks at Noam Chomsky and Ludwig Zamenhof's contributions to linguistics

Babel article: Universal Language and Universal Grammar

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Would you like to review Family Language or Bilingual Parenting for Babel? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In the latest Babel, Ethnologue looks at the digitally strongest and weakest languages

Babel infographic: The Digital Language Divide

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

15 Babels... for just £15! Interested? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In Babel No55, learn about the ancient Anatolian language of Urartian Issues & subscriptions available at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Babel's Young Writers' Competition 2026 is now open! The winner will be published in 2027 Here is last year's winner, Jonathan Lucas, on the languages of the pre-Roman West Full competition details at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Article: The languages of the pre-Roman West

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In the brand new Babel, we meet @dannybate.com, author of Why Q Needs U Order Babel No55, or take out a subscription, at babelzine.co.uk

Meet the Professionals: Danny Bate, writer

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In the new Babel... Ethnologue looks at the most used Sign Languages Get your copy of Babel No55 at babelzine.co.uk

Babel infographic: The most used Sign Languages

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Did Tommy Cooper's fez really come from Morocco? Peter Trudgill investigates in Babel No55

Letters from a linguist: Tommy Cooper's fez

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hi Salvatore. No, that email (and the typos) were mine! Best wishes, Matt

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Get 15 Babels for £15 - or free for schools and colleges! (Price is for UK - please get in touch for a price to overseas.) Email babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com to find out more

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In the brand new Babel - learn all about how the @planetworddc museum became established Subscribe & buy back issues at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Babel No55: Summer 2026 The @planetworddc.bsky.social language museum, Chomsky and Zamenhof, impoliteness, and much more! Available to digital subscribers now. Print issues to be posted week beginning 6 July 2026. Subscribe now at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2027)! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Have a question? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

Babel's Young Writers' Competition 2026-7

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@babelzine.bsky.social's resident etymologist Simon Horobin delivering a plenary lecture at the English historical linguistics conference in Milan on 'J.R.R. Tolkien and the study of Middle English dialects' (may contain traces of 1930s squash).

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In the new A Clash of Symbols, @domwatt.bsky.social looks at English spelling's peculiar propensity for words starting with <p>

A Clash of Symbols: The princess and the [p]

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Feaking, gleaming and gurgiting - spring's Babel looks at the language of hawking

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Subscribers! Fancy being interviewed in the next issue of Babel? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

*Babel seeks reviewers!* Would you like to review Bilingual Parenting or Verb Your Enthusiasm' for Babel? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 26/04/2026

The latest issue of Babel is out! Featuring an awesome article about the languages that existed in Europe before the Roman Empire, and a look at just how many languages there are in the world—and how many of them are endangered. @babelzine.bsky.social

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Write a book review for Babel! We are seeking a language-lover to review Speaking in Pictures for our magazine Interested? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

Review opportunity: Speaking in Pictures

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In the brand new Babel, Stephen Jones explains how the Ethnologue database classifies the languages of the world

Babel infographic: Ethnologue's classification of languages

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In the brand new Babel - learn all about Ethnologue's journey from a database of 46 languages to 7,613 languages

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Babel's Spring issue - Ethnologue, presidents' speeches, people who sound 'different', and much more... Available now for digital readers at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/... Print copies posted w/b 13 April Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Back in Babel No39, our complete and utter history of English begins with raucous Romans, pesky Picts and shrewd Scots

The complete and utter history of English: 43CE to 500CE

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Babel's lucky dip offer - get an assortment of 15 back issues, and only pay for P&P: - £15 for readers in the UK - Free for schools and colleges in the UK - More for readers outside the UK - get in touch for a price Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Brunch, jeggings and cybrarians - in The Word Hoard, Simon Horobin looks at blendings

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Coming up in Babel No54 - we take a look at Gascon

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🌻 Coming up in Spring's new Babel... a look at Ethnologue's wealth of information on the languages of the world

Babel poster: Ethnologue and the languages of the world

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

What, exactly, do you mean? In Babel No18, Becky Brooks and Elspeth Wilson look at how speakers IMPLY and hearers INFER

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

15 lucky dip back issues for £15! (UK price. Please get in touch for postage abroad) Contact babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com to get your bundle

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Back in Babel No37, Tim Brookes looks at the human rights crisis of endangered alphabets

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

[o] joy! In the latest A Clash of Symbols, @domwatt.bsky.social takes a look at The Wonderful O

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In the current Babel - @joshtpm.bsky.social on his sociolinguistic research "When I started to become interested in the academic side of linguistics, I realised there were many interesting quirks in the ways that people in Salisbury/Wiltshire speak, but that nobody was writing papers about this"

Linguistic Horizons: Sociolinguistics & underrepresented areas

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

In the current Babel, @alicehaines.bsky.social looks at a joke thought to represent Estonia...

Kill the Joke: An example of Estonian humour

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In the current Babel, Janine Lutchman and Avah Atherton look at the origins of their creole language

Languages of the world: Trinidadian English Creole

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 22/02/2026

Every single issue of Babel: The Language Magazine 🗣️ @babelzine.bsky.social I’ve got so much fun reading to nerd out on now! 🤓

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