Video: "Hidden" Language Revealed

Oct 5,2010-Koro a language previously unknown to linguists, has been discovered in the mountains of northeastern India. From National Geographic National Geogrphi-Enduring Vocies Project http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mission/enduringvoices/ All copy rights reserved to National Geographic Society 1996-2010.

Welcome Back!

I know it is too late to say this but Welcome back to York! everyone =) Great news for LSAY this year, thanks to Richard Yanaky, we got an office at Founders college room 121D. But unfortunately, we are not able to use it just for now due to some maintenance issues. Although we will have office hours 11:30am to 1:30pm every Mondays and Wendesdays at DLLL lounge for now which located in 5th floor of South Ross Building. Everyone's welcome! Don't be shy! During those hours, tutoring session will also take palce so those of you who need help with linguistic courses feel free to drop in.

Volunteers needed!

LSAY is looking for some volunteers to promote linguistics to incoming students on August 26,2010 between 11:30 to 2:00 as part of Academic Orientation session organized by Founders college. They are willing to set up a table for us so we can promote ourselves as long as we want. Those of you who have been to spring and/or fall gala are looking at the similar idea. So, if Anyone is interested, please contact LSAY or Professor Alboiu. Thank you!

DLLL Lecture Tomorrow!

Professor Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto) "Heritage Language Variation and Variation and Change in Toronto: Focus on Faeto" (Co-sponsored with the Centre for Research on Language Contact) Check out Professor Nagy's website for the further description on her research project. http://individual.utoronto.ca/ngn/research/heritage_lgs.htm Remember all talks are from 5:00-6:00 in Ross South 562. Hope to see you all there!

Location Change

The peer-tutoring and hangout sessions on Tuesdays have officially changed locations. We are no longer in RS538. Instead, we will be down that same hall way in the DLLL grad lounge. We will be there for the remaining three Tuesdays (March 16th, 23rd and 30th) from 1-5pm.

March update

Hi everyone! The term (and year) is coming to a close soon! LSAY is getting ready to wrap things up too... Here is a list of whats happening: Thursday March 18th: final event - there will be an informal talk by one of our fellow students on constructed languages (for example, Tolkien's Elvish). We will send an email out when we have confirmed time and location. Tuesday March 30th: 1-5pm, second last peer-tutoring session Thursday April 1st: 2:30-5pm, final peer-tutoring session Until then, peer-tutoring and hangout sessions are as usual: Tuesdays 1-5pm in RS538. If you want help with material from a linguistics course, please send us an email in advance so we can be prepared. Feel free to bring a friend and your own tutor. If these times/dates don't work for you, let us know and we'll see what can be done. Good luck on all your final essays, assignments and tests/exams! LSAY

Revised office hours

The office hours for Feb 2 and Feb 9, 2010 will be from 2:30 to 5:30.