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There's a great deal to be said in praise of Taylor's new book (2011 still counts as "new" in academic non-fiction) but...

What do we mean by "lexical tones"?  They are the tones we now rely on to find a word in the dictionary (a lexicon, in plain E...

I am here providing a set of ten of illustrations that I could simply say are self-explanatory, but their significance would be evident...

I raised this list of words (and sentences) for discussion in my email group for  Learning Hô-ló (台語, 臺灣話) * for a peculiar reason: the or...

In these two illustrations, you have 27 varieties of fruit set out in four languages.  You'll notice that Taiwanese Hokkien (Hô-ló)...

This is the first truly new  textbook for teaching Taiwanese Hokkien (台語) to native speakers of English in a very long time. Most of the...

Another illustration that speaks for itself: two excerpts from the inscriptions of Ashoka* with just enough educational material provided ...

The very idea of "a new system" has a bad name these days (perhaps because the people who propose them tend to be stuck on th...

(1) This is a short notice on some of the things that make the comparative study of Pali and Cambodian so rewarding, and also a few reflect...