In Nepal’s southern plains, community leaders and creatives work to keep a language and culture alive Awadhi, a language rich in heritage and belonging, has long been sidelined in Nepal’s mainstream discourse. Its fading risks erasing centuries of literature, festivals, rituals, and traditional foods.

In Nepal’s southern plains, community leaders and creatives work to keep a language and culture alive
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#CaribbeanCulture #MissLou #Linguistics The Honorable Louse Bennett change the trajectory of Jamaican culture. Miss Lou use Jamaican dialect, #PATOIS creatively at a time when #neocolonial minded society scoffed at poor black people's culture #languge #culture #mento

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A comic by xkcd, showing how altering a word makes it more fluid and easier to pronounce in the mouth.

1/2 Fun new comic from xkcd!

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