Some principles for language names

Martin Haspelmath Linguists are sometimes confronted with choices concerning language names. For example, one and the same language may be referred to as Persian or Farsi. This short paper discusses some principles that one might use for making decisions when there...

Earbuds: A Method for Analyzing Nasality in the Field

Jesse Stewart & Martin Kohlberger Existing methods for collecting and analyzing nasality data are problematic for linguistic fieldworkers: aerodynamic equipment can be expensive and difficult to transport, and acoustic analyses require large amounts of...

Language Vitality among the Mako Communities of the Ventuari River

Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada Mako [ISO 639-3: wpc], a Sáliban language spoken along the Ventuari River in the Venezuelan Amazon, has been variably reported as (critically) endangered and threatened. These reports, however, are based on second-hand information and/or...