A double take on contact phenomena: an introduction to code-switching

How do you get from Taiwan to Hawaii without ever leaving the same language family? And can a language family really have 1,200 children and still keep track of who's who? Tune in to find out the answers to these questions and more!

Why say it in ten words when you can build it into one (polysynthesis, anyone?)? Did anyone outside Egypt use hieroglyphs? And how do you know whether a Quechua speaker knows what you know? Tune in to today's episode to find out!

How does Kazakh make its vowels get along while its suffixes do all the heavy lifting? What links Madagascar, Easter Island and the Philippines? And can anyone lend me a retroflex consonant? Tune in to today's episode to find out!

The ancient Greeks are back! How did an Austronesian language end up in Africa? Which are the most ancient known African languages? And where does a pachyderm come into it? Tune in to find out!

Is it safe to eat a 2000 year old Panini? Are you troubled by eccentric relatives? Should you just Grimm and bear it? Tune into this episode to learn about the origins and history of the Indo-European language family!

How do languages end up with family resemblances? Can two words really be separated at birth? What does your vocabulary have to say about your ancestors? And who invited Sanskrit to the family reunion? Tune into the first episode of this new series on historical linguistics and language families to find out more!

Why are some languages living on borrowed time? Is there life after death for a language? And could your language be next? Tune into this episode to find out the answers to these questions and many more! Linguistics HQ will now take a summer break but will return on September 2nd with a new series, so do subscribe so that you don't miss out!

Why do grandchildren always seem to answer in the wrong language? Can a language lose a popularity contest? And is language shift just rebranding with better marketing? Tune into this episode to find out!

Could you survive an Arctic trading expedition armed with twenty words and your creativity? When is a pidgin fully fledged? And how can you accidentally invent a language? Tune into today's episode to find out!

Do you ever start a sentence in one language and terminarla en otra? Would you like to learn a cunning way to make people think you're bilingual? And the ancient grammarians are back! Tune in da learn bagaimana multilingual speakers miksaju i matchaju on a daily basis!