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The notebook
The book is being written in the open
A public logbook: what moves forward, what gets stuck, what I change my mind about.
31 juillet 2026
What this book calls a language
The list of chapters holds a dead language, an invented one, creoles and a language without writing. That is not eclecticism: it is the argument.
31 juillet 2026It will be Korean
A language with no known relatives was needed. Two candidates, one place — and an argument that finally decided it.
29 juillet 2026Sign language is not a bonus chapter
The hardest chapter in the book is also the one that justifies all the others.