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In this thread students @MQLinguistics
@Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)
⬇️⬇️⬇️Favorite facts about #literacies ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)
⬇️⬇️⬇️Favorite facts about #literacies ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Learning about message sticks is my favorite. When thinking about message sticks from a #literacies perspective, they seem very modern.
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#RightNow for every singel one of us charities are either directly helping us or helping people or causes we care about 1/11
#RightNow there will be people living on your street who rely on charitable support 2/11
#RightNow you might be heading out to a green space, almost certainly cared for by volunteers and charities 3/11
In this thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼students of #Literacies unit @MQLinguistics @Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)
Favorite facts about #literacy
Favorite facts about #literacy
#Literacy is dynamic, continually developing and unfolds in new and unexpected ways. Learning the inception of #writing and its trajectory to the forms we use now has me excited to observe how literacy continues to develop in the future
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I particularly was surprised by the fact that early prints were made to be similar to handwriting, I thought that was quite genius idea! Also, I liked the fact that printed #books were given to the people whose main job was to decorate them!
Do you think #English is a linguistic juggernaut?
You're right but spare a thought for the #Latin #alphabet - the greatest linguistic superpower of all times
More #languages and people use the #Latin #script than all other scripts combined
You're right but spare a thought for the #Latin #alphabet - the greatest linguistic superpower of all times
More #languages and people use the #Latin #script than all other scripts combined
#Languages that use the #Latin script have official or co-official status in many countries around the world
Around 3000 BCE in eastern #Europe, a Proto-Balto-Slavic #language started to diverge from #ProtoIndoEuropean.
The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
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The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
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As the #Slavic-speaking area expanded during the first millennium CE (striped area on map), Proto-Slavic transitioned to Common Slavic. The #language underwent minor changes that occurred mostly uniformly across eastern #Europe, thereby maintaining mutual intelligibility.
Around the year 1000 CE #CommonSlavic began to split into the South, West, and East branches to which all modern #Slavic #languages belong.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
