News about Languages

Copenhagen Indo-European scholars receive prize

Thomas Olander and Rasmus G. Bjørn’s research project Wheels, Wagons and Words has been awarded the prize for the Original Idea of the Year 2025 from the Independent Research Fund Denmark: official announcement and…

CIP hosts international conference on sociolinguistics and AI

From 19-21 August 2026, researchers from around the world gathered at the University of Copenhagen's South Campus for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI 2026, hosted by the AI-UNI research group.

New English Courses and Workshops for Staff

In 2026, CIP will expand its English course offerings for employees with new courses and workshops in presentation skills and pronunciation. These offerings help strengthen employees’ competencies in English-language…

Podcast about food waste featuring CIP project

On behalf of the project group behind "Fighting food waste - navigating values choices and habits", Janus Mortensen participated in the podcast the ESG panel.

Ambassador's visit

The ambassador of India Manish Prabhat visited Roots of Europe.

Join the AI-UNI ’Research lunches’ in 2026

The AI-UNI project will host another series of ’Research lunches’ during spring 2026.

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen

A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated”…

Klog på Sprog om sproghistorie

Tobias Mosbæk Søborg og Thomas Olander fra Roots of Europe har sammen med fonetikeren Ruben Schachtenhaufen været i Klog på Sprog på P1. Med udgangspunkt i dansk kommer de og værten Adrian Hughes vidt omkring i tid og…

A successful CIP symposium 2025

CIP held its annual symposium on Thursday, November 6, 2025, this year titled “New Literacies - the role of multilingualism and generative AI”. Read more about the day here.

Kirsten Busch Nielsen continues as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Kirsten Busch Nielsen’s appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen has been extended until 2029.

Tourists flock to the Faroe Islands – but meet resistance from locals

Tourism in the Faroe Islands is growing rapidly and now generates more than one billion Danish kroner annually. However, the successful tourism industry risks destroying the unique, untouched nature that is used to…

Slomanns Legat

Kære alle Stud.mag. Per Slomanns Legat er blevet slået op. Fra opslaget: Midlerne fordeles og tildeles efter fundatsens krav til en forsker som har en kandidatgrad inden for sprogvidenskab, særligt sammenlignende…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Language Use at UCPH on inclusion of international employees

Episode 4 of the CIP podcast, Sprogbrug på KU / Language Use at UCPH focuses on how to best welcome and include new international colleagues. The podcast will be released 26 September 2025.

Artikel om bog om det danske sprogs historie

Carlsbergfondet har omtalt Thomas Olanders bog Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen på deres hjemmeside: https://carlsbergfondet.dk/viden/paa-sporet-af-det-danske-sprogs-roedder/.

New book: Indo-European ecologies

The book Indo-European ecologies: Cattle and milk – snakes and water has been published at Stockholm University Press.

Results from the MUST project can inform decisions about language initiatives in higher education

From 2020 to 2023, the project Models for teaching language as an additional competence (MUST) carried out work to investigate how best to introduce language as an additional competence in higher education on…

Explainer on language history from videnskab.dk

Danish popular science site videnskab.dk has published an explainer (in Danish) on language history featuring Thomas Olander and Guus Kroonen: “This is how Danish sounded 6,000 years ago”. “Sådan lød dansk for 6.000 år…

Thomas Olander appointed professor of Indo-European Studies

After three years in the promotion programme, Thomas Olander has been appointed professor of Indo-European Studies at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. The inaugural lecture will…

A Fond Farewell: Celebrating Pete Westbrook's 16 Years at CIP

As Pete Westbrook is retiring at the end of June 2025, we would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable contribution he has made to CIP.

Visit from Umeå University

From 3-11 April 2025 Frankie Ekerholm from Umeå University visited CIP for exchange of ideas and knowledge about language courses in English and the local language for staff members at Umeå.

Coming soon – offline speech recognition even on low-memory phones

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to…

Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, CIP releases new book

New volume: Languages on the Agenda – Sprog på dagsordenen, of the CIP series Studies in Parallel Language use.