Are Mi'kmaw hieroglyphs one of the earliest Indigenous writing systems or just a memory aid?

Both the use and origin of these glyphs is uncertain but what is certain is they look nothing like European writing systems.

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TIL:

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In #SocialScience generally and #linguistics specifically, the #CooperativePrinciple describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—

Jakobson's genius was in his knack for building scholarly communities wherever he landed. My article covers how he turned phonology into a universal key for culture and why he studied aphasia.

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I’m absofuckinglutely thrilled to be writing a paper on what’s happening syntactically when we shove a swear word into the middle of a perfectly whole other word (aka tmesis). I’m also intrigued about whether (and how) this happens in other languages. Have you got any examples? #linguistics

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Some of the posts of my new instagram page to teach Brazilian Portuguese!
Please help me grow there!
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In this post I study 'going rogue' as a dominant/hegemonic metaphor and some counter- or polemic metaphors - contains blenders, Glocks, robot dogs and some serious metaphor debunking #AI #linguistics #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...

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How a font is helping revitalize hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓

#Musqueam adopted NAPA in 1997 for accuracy. Only one font was able to display it but even it had limitations. So they made a new one.

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