30 September 2026 is International Translation Day Back in Babel No2, Nicole Y Adams told us all about life as a translator

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✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Daniel Strogen on the language of Love Island Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

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In the latest Babel, Gabriela Valenzuela discusses her work on why some of us are particularly good at learning languages

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2027)! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch Have a question? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

In the new Babel, Mireia Llinàs-Grau looks at Noam Chomsky and Ludwig Zamenhof's contributions to linguistics

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In the latest Babel, Ethnologue looks at the digitally strongest and weakest languages

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In Babel No55, learn about the ancient Anatolian language of Urartian Issues & subscriptions available at babelzine.co.uk

Babel's Young Writers' Competition 2026 is now open! The winner will be published in 2027 Here is last year's winner, Jonathan Lucas, on the languages of the pre-Roman West Full competition details at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

In the brand new Babel, we meet @dannybate.com, author of Why Q Needs U Order Babel No55, or take out a subscription, at babelzine.co.uk

In the new Babel... Ethnologue looks at the most used Sign Languages Get your copy of Babel No55 at babelzine.co.uk

Did Tommy Cooper's fez really come from Morocco? Peter Trudgill investigates in Babel No55

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In the brand new Babel - learn all about how the @planetworddc museum became established Subscribe & buy back issues at babelzine.co.uk

Babel No55: Summer 2026 The @planetworddc.bsky.social language museum, Chomsky and Zamenhof, impoliteness, and much more! Available to digital subscribers now. Print issues to be posted week beginning 6 July 2026. Subscribe now at babelzine.co.uk

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2027)! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! Have a question? Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

@babelzine.bsky.social's resident etymologist Simon Horobin delivering a plenary lecture at the English historical linguistics conference in Milan on 'J.R.R. Tolkien and the study of Middle English dialects' (may contain traces of 1930s squash).

In the new A Clash of Symbols, @domwatt.bsky.social looks at English spelling's peculiar propensity for words starting with <p>

Feaking, gleaming and gurgiting - spring's Babel looks at the language of hawking

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The latest issue of Babel is out! Featuring an awesome article about the languages that existed in Europe before the Roman Empire, and a look at just how many languages there are in the world—and how many of them are endangered. @babelzine.bsky.social

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In the brand new Babel, Stephen Jones explains how the Ethnologue database classifies the languages of the world

In the brand new Babel - learn all about Ethnologue's journey from a database of 46 languages to 7,613 languages

Babel's Spring issue - Ethnologue, presidents' speeches, people who sound 'different', and much more... Available now for digital readers at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/... Print copies posted w/b 13 April Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk