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Future Tongues
It has a life of its own, our propensity to talk: always evolving, pivoting in unexpected directions. The sentence that rolled off your tongue or departed your fingertips just a second ago — along with its tone, word choice, its construction — has something especially interesting to say about our world today and years from now. Join Aaron as he tries to better understand the marvel that is language!
Future Tongues
Contact, Creoles, and Kiezdeutsch (Kiezdeutsch pt. 3) | Philipp Krämer
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Episode 3
To be multilingual is to be utterly uninteresting; most of the world's population is multilingual. Interesting, however, is what happens when multilingualism leads to language contact. The resulting innovations can be anything from a mere exchange of words to a shift in grammar or to the birth of an entirely new language — and how to define these innovations is a question linguists are still trying to answer. In this episode, Aaron talks with Philipp Krämer, a professor of linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. They talk about how languages like Kiezdeutsch are classified, the contact situations of creoles and multiethnolects, and the many crucial ingredients needed for a dialect so rich as Kiezdeutsch to develop.