Kohopoho
Small stories from a wide world

Topic

language

Every Kohopoho article tagged language — 3 pieces across 2 sections.

Folklore

Place names are the oldest documents in the landscape

Names attached to hills, rivers and fields frequently outlast the languages that produced them, and they preserve information about vegetation, ownership and events that no record survives for.

Anahera Wetere··3 min read

Language & Words

Against "untranslatable": what those word lists actually show

The internet loves a word that supposedly has no English equivalent. What is usually being demonstrated is not a gap in translation but a difference in what gets compressed into a single word.

Lena Farkas··3 min read