Agglutinative languages
For Mexico’s Maya people, baseball, or bax’abola, a way of life
Mexico’s Maya people have a culture that is distinct, and all their own. So while the rest of Mexico goes nuts about soccer, the Mayans are more baseball people. And that love for baseball continues, even when those people move to new places, like the U.S.
Dictators with dialects, finger spelling and universal Inuit
Napoleon, Hitler and Gaddafi all grew up speaking a distinct dialect of their native tongue. Coincidence? Dialects are the languages of outsiders, at least until they are co-opted by people, or governments, trying to standardize the language. That’s what’s happening right now in northern Canada, where with the dialects of the Inuit. The hope is […]
Aha Moment: TV On The North Slope
Filmmaker Andrew Okpeha MacLean is from an Inuit family in Barrow, Alaska. When TV was introduced to the North Slope, it began to decimate the Inupiaq language. Now he’s making films that bring that language to the world beyond the Arctic. Produced by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch.