Monday, January 1
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John Wilkins born, 1614. |
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John Wilkins (1 January 1614–19 November 1672) was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, a founder of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. He is particularly known for An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language in which, amongst other things, he proposed a universal language and a decimal system of measure not unlike the modern metric system. |
Wednesday, January 3
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J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle Earth and its languages, born, 1892 |
Thursday, January 4
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All day event |
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Jakob Grimm (of Grimm's Law and folktale fame) born, 1785. |
Friday, January 5
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All day event |
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A monument to Ivar Aasen, creator of Nynorsk, is unveiled in Oslo, 1996. |
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(noted in Limits of Language by Mikael Parkvall) |
Sunday, January 7
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, ("reviver" of Hebrew) in Luzhky, Lithuania, 1858. |
Saturday, January 13
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All day event |
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Paul Passy, French linguist, founder of the International Phonetic Association, born, 1859. |
Tuesday, January 16
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All day event |
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The inception of the CONLANG/AUXLANG split, 1996 |
Thursday, January 18
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All day event |
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James Evans, missionary who created syllabaries for various Algonquin languages, born, 1801. |
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James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of the "syllabic" writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut. |
Friday, January 19
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Dr. Victoria Fromkin, creator of Pakuni, dies, 2000. |
Friday, January 26
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All day event |
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Edward Sapir is born, 1884. |
Saturday, January 27
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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Conlang meetup |
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