Same in most of Moroccan Arabic. Colin makes a difference between šta ‘rain’ and šetwa ‘winter’ which I find a bit suspect. Harrell has iyyam l-berd for ‘winter’. I vaguely recall mešta for ‘winter’, but I avoid talking about such terrible things in any language, so I am not in any way sure 😁
25.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zeker
24.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
en "dat raadt je de koekoek"
24.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you don’t know, then who knows in your language?
For Dutch, we say ‘Joost mag het weten’ (Joost may know it), where Makhuwa says ‘Nluku tantsuwela’ (God is the one who knows).
What do you say?
24.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 9 📌 2
sieht auch ein bisschen aus wie Moulin Rouge
24.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Is this a message from the future?
24.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
huh? 🤯😳👻👻👻
24.11.2025 07:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fantastic!
24.11.2025 06:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I guess !
In any case there are other boat engravings in southern Libya.
Like this one in this photo taken by Jean-Loic Quellec in Messak region
23.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
It has been suggested by Gouffé, but, indeed, hard to show because of the sound symbolism. Cats probably entered the region from the north, so a Berber origin is not unthinkable. The Berber term itself presents quite some complications to a reconstruction too
23.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NadorcTarifiyt amecnaw would work even better 😁
23.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Custom-made for my grandfather’s grandfather 😁
23.11.2025 19:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bantu 11 Conference – BantUGent – UGent Centre for Bantu Studies
The cfp for the 11th International Conference on Bantu languages (#Bantu11) cfp is out! Deadline 1st Dec for submissions to the general session or to one of the 11 workshops, conf. in Ghent/online, 18th-21st August 2026
www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/ #Bantu #linguistics
01.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
oh, interesting. Never heard that as far as I am aware
23.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
k' for fortis?
23.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
is that a boat?
23.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ !
23.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@museumschokland.bsky.social
21.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Permissible (I can't remember but I think this was in Mleiha, Sharjah)
23.11.2025 11:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
although I am not sure about كوستيم
23.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'd say so
23.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Not from Libyan Arabic or Amazigh as far as I know 🤷
23.11.2025 10:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A camel posing at the top of a reddish dune in RAK
obligatory camel photo
23.11.2025 09:41 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
If it wouldn’t consume the amount of electricity used in Niger in two months, I would totally ask AI to make me an ankylosaur with spaniel ears
22.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
merci!
22.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
21.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 2601 🔁 1031 💬 39 📌 14
voudriez-vous expliquer ceci? (ce n'est pas que j'en doute, mais je suis curieux des raisons)
22.11.2025 12:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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