Podcast Episodes

Cornish and Daniel Prohaska

Season 2 Episode 28

Dydh da! Episode 28 of ALILI is here, and Daniel Prohaska joins me to discuss Cornish! This Celtic language has a long and fascinating history, stret…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Burgenland Croatian and Katharina Tyran

Season 2 Episode 27

Time for Episode 27 and a return to the Slavic languages! Unsurprisingly, Croatian is a Slavic language widely spoken in the modern-day country of Cr…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Proto-Germanic and Yoïn van Spijk

Season 2 Episode 26

Episode 26 is a first for the show: a language so old that it's theoretical! This time, ALILI is discussing the whole Germanic language family, from …

2 years, 3 months ago

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Mansi and Daria Zhornik

Season 2 Episode 25

Episode 25 is here and it's a return to the Finno-Ugric languages with expert linguist Daria Zhornik. The particular member of Finno-Ugric is Mansi (…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Marathi and Manish Goregaokar

Season 2 Episode 24

Episode 24 of ALILI is a return to India, this time to dive into Marathi, the official langauge of the state of Maharashtra and India's third-largest…

2 years, 4 months ago

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SPECIAL: Talking Indo-European with Jackson Crawford

Season 2 Episode 23

This is an episode of ALILI with a twist, as Dr Jackson Crawford, YouTube's charming Old Norse expert, had me back on his channel to chat syntax, old…

2 years, 5 months ago

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Romansh and Emma Gledhill

Season 2 Episode 22

For episode 22, we're travelling high into the Alps, to join linguist and translator Emma Gledhill in the Graubünden/Grisons canton of Switzerland. E…

2 years, 6 months ago

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Catalan and Alba Clopés and Joey Barber

Season 2 Episode 21

For episode 21, ALILI becomes A Language We Love Is, as two guests, Alba Clopés and Joey Barber, join me to chat Catalan. Our conversation ranges fro…

2 years, 6 months ago

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P'urhepecha and Kate Bellamy

Season 2 Episode 20

ALILI has reached 20 episodes! The twentieth beloved language is P'urhepecha, a language of Mexico introduced by Dr. Kate Bellamy. Kate enthusiastica…

2 years, 6 months ago

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Kashmiri and Sāmapriẏa Basu

Season 2 Episode 19

Episode 19 sees the show's first returning guest, as the maestro of Indo-Iranian languages, Dr. Sāmapriẏa Basu, joins me again, this time to introduc…

2 years, 7 months ago

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