Babel: The Language Magazine
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📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers 📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️ 🔗 babelzine.co.uk
In the latest Babel, Ethnologue looks at the digitally strongest and weakest languages
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In Babel No55, learn about the ancient Anatolian language of Urartian Issues & subscriptions available at babelzine.co.uk
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...
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
In the new Babel... Ethnologue looks at the most used Sign Languages Get your copy of Babel No55 at babelzine.co.uk
Did Tommy Cooper's fez really come from Morocco? Peter Trudgill investigates in Babel No55
In the brand new Babel - learn all about how the @planetworddc museum became established Subscribe & buy back issues at babelzine.co.uk
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
✍️ 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
In the new A Clash of Symbols, @domwatt.bsky.social looks at English spelling's peculiar propensity for words starting with <p>
Feaking, gleaming and gurgiting - spring's Babel looks at the language of hawking
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In the brand new Babel, Stephen Jones explains how the Ethnologue database classifies the languages of the world
In the brand new Babel - learn all about Ethnologue's journey from a database of 46 languages to 7,613 languages
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
Back in Babel No39, our complete and utter history of English begins with raucous Romans, pesky Picts and shrewd Scots
Brunch, jeggings and cybrarians - in The Word Hoard, Simon Horobin looks at blendings
🌻 Coming up in Spring's new Babel... a look at Ethnologue's wealth of information on the languages of the world
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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Back in Babel No37, Tim Brookes looks at the human rights crisis of endangered alphabets
[o] joy! In the latest A Clash of Symbols, @domwatt.bsky.social takes a look at The Wonderful O
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"
In the current Babel, @alicehaines.bsky.social looks at a joke thought to represent Estonia...
In the current Babel, Janine Lutchman and Avah Atherton look at the origins of their creole language