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Brian Loo Soon Hua

North American Indigenous Languages 101

A Talk by Brian Loo Soon Hua (Linguist, uTalk)

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About this Talk

This presentation will serve as a general overview and introduction to the indigenous languages of North America. North America is a huge and extremely diverse linguistic area with as many as 42 different language families and in addition to this, several dozen language isolates (unique languages unrelated to any other in the world). I will discuss some of the more common features of indigenous North American languages from the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, Na-Dene, Algonquian and Uto-Aztecan language families, including phonology and grammar.

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05 January 2022, 01:00 PM

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

About The Speakers

Brian Loo Soon Hua

Brian Loo Soon Hua

Linguist, uTalk

Over 20 years of studying phonology, morphology and syntax of indigenous languages in North America and Australia. Also, had a brief stint as a food technologist - but that was another lifetime ago. Currently works as a linguist for uTalk and a linguistics consultant with Miromaa.

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