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Wij noemen dat ‘schapenweer’. Dat je naar buiten kijkt en denkt: ‘bèèèh!’ 🐑

Niet ‘ma belle’?

En wat is het meervoud van libelle in jullie huishouden?

Toon wordt in de orthografie niet gemarkeerd, dus het had gekund. Ik weet niet waarom hiervoor gekozen is…

Also: I laughed so loud and love this so much! 😂😍

ligazine!

P.S. ĩ/ũ in Gĩkũyũ and î/û in Kîîtharaka are the orthographic forms of [e]/[o]; <e/o> represent [ɛ]/[ɔ].

The reason the ‘prefix’ is kept in A*gĩ*kũyũ is the origin of the name: The founder of the Gĩkũyũ people was called Gĩkũyũ!
So technically the language could be Gĩgĩkũyũ, but we know that speakers disprefer repeating the same syllable, hence it’s 💬 Gĩkũyũ and 👥Agĩkũyũ.

First sth about noun classes: kî/gĩ- is the prefix of noun class 7 in both languages, used to refer to objects and also languages. A- is the prefix of noun class 2 in both, referring to human beings. Normally, you replace the prefix on a noun stem:
kî-ntu = thing
a-ntu = people
û-ntu = reason

Fascinating language fact of the day #4: speakers of Kîîtharaka call themselves Atharaka, while speakers of neighbouring Gĩkũyũ are Agĩkũyũ, not Akũyũ.
How come?

(Ethnologue map shows both languages in Kenya)

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SLE workshop The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2…

Workshop ‘The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction’. Let’s think about speaker and addresse knowledge in language and how to model it. Come join us at the SLE 2026 in Osnabrück! Deadline pre-cfp 5 November ✨

epistemicity.net/workshop/

Ah, jij hebt de ongelooflijke podcast ook ontdekt! Goed is ‘ie, hè? Fijn dat jij de etymologieën recht kan zetten, Gaston - weer wat geleerd.
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SLE workshop The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2…

Workshop ‘The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction’. Let’s think about speaker and addresse knowledge in language and how to model it. Come join us at the SLE 2026 in Osnabrück! Deadline pre-cfp 5 November ✨

epistemicity.net/workshop/

🍰 Hoe was die uitdrukking ook weer? 😆🤔

Correction: Zeisler (with one s)!

Final words by Zeissler: the blind speaker’s perspective “turns out to be like a magnifying glass, unmasking a fine-grained distinction otherwise hidden beyond conventionalised preconceptions” 👀

Zeissler is inspired by this blind speaker’s logic: ‘dug is *immediate* perception and rag is *less immediate*. In fact, this seems to be how seeing speakers can also use the markers! She concludes that ‘dug is secondarily associated with seeing, because sight is the most immediate perception.

But other than seeing speakers, she uses rag (for non-visual perception) with experiences like climbing rocks. This can be analysed as less immediate perception.

Bettina Zeissler (2023) reports on a blind Ladakhi speaker’s use of these markers. The speaker uses ‘dug when she has immediate and close perception, like when touching a cat:

Ladakhi, spoken in India, has two markers for this, ‘dug and rag. ‘Dug is used when you have visual evidence: you saw it with your own eyes. But such evidence is inaccessible to blind people! Do they use ‘dug at all? If so, how?

Fascinating language fact of the day #3: how do blind speakers use visual evidentials?
Almost the same as seeing people, but interestingly different, it turns out!
On evidentials: In some languages, you indicate the source of your knowledge: have you seen it yourself, is it by hearsay or inference?

😞

morgen is het de eerste dag van het laatste kwart van het laatste jaar van het eerste kwart van de 21ste eeuw. #justsaying

Ah, beautiful Leiden!