Tanguy Solliec

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55 Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Manchán Magan on stage with Kneecap

Manchán Magan walks to the stage during a Kneecap gig

B’ambasadóir é Manchán dár nglúin féin agus duine a bhí lárnach san athbheochán a tharla ar na mallaibh sa chultúr agus sa Ghaeilge. Sheas sé i lár an aonaigh agus thiocfadh a rá nár chuir sé é féin ansin ach gur chuir an pobal ann é. Ina bhealach séimh féin, chuir sé i gcuimhne dúinn fán ról atá ag an teanga maidir le tuiscint níos doimhne a fháil ar an cheantar thart orainn agus orainn féin. Mairfidh a oidhreacht i meon fiosrach spreagúil na nGael agus iontu siúd a théann sa tóir ar shaol níos doimhne agus fíoraithe. Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach. 💚

Perhaps unwillingly, he was the foremost cultural ambassador for our generation and instrumental in the resurgence of Irish language and culture. He gently reminded us of the role the language has in understanding our surroundings, and knowing ourselves. His legacy will live on in the curious minds of the Irish and beyond, in those who seek a deeper and more fulfilling life. Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach 💚

Manchán Magan on stage with Kneecap

Manchán Magan on stage with Kneecap

Suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam Gaelach. 💚

Go raibh míle maith agat. I thought so, but the expert’s view is far more sounder than a vague intuition 😉

Sociolinguistic Typology Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages a...

A good case study for sociolinguistic tyypology à la Trudgill!
Do you think that litteracy could have also contributed at some extent to this process of complexification?

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David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.

Bernard Bortolussi et Étienne Wolff (dir.) - Un empire, plusieurs langues

Aspects du plurilinguisme dans le monde romain

À paraître en octobre chez Ausonius

Middle Breton inscription in Ploubezre saying "tut mat ho pater leveret - o tremen ploeberz an berzet"

Avec une petite illustration provenant du site Min Ran
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Et des explications en breton dans une chronique d'Herve Bihan
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Wunderbar. Bravo !

If some people don't get it: This representation of the Evangelist Marc is explained by the proximity between the name and the word for 'horse' in Old Breton marh, march 🐴

Represent of the Evangelist Marc with the head of a horse. Évangéliaire de Landévennec From Ms Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, 0008, f. 042

Please wait for a moment! I'm going to look for my horse! Uh, sorry for Marc ;)

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Ha troioù ha distroioù a c’hallje bezañ neuhe. N’emaoc’h ket o vont da c’hGallipoli ?

Chañs vad toc’h !

#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt -- 1926 -- livre

Some of her works are publicly available online on @gallicabnf.bsky.social

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique

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Description d'un parler irlandais de Kerry

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🇪🇪 🇫🇷 Many thank to Dr. Tanguy Solliec for visiting us in Tallinn and giving a very interesting talk and to the French-Estonian Parrot Mobility Program which made this possible. Our project "Algorithmic Complexity in Comparative Gallo-Romance & Finnic Dialectology" has made an important step! 👍

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Cornish clung on as living language beyond Dolly Pentreath, says writer Author of new book suggests Kernewek continued to be spoken in the 19th century, albeit in ‘tiny numbers’

"Kensa Broadhurst, of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, has written a book in which she argues that the language clung on through the 19th century, spoken by some working-class Cornish people as well as academics and others who saw value in preserving it."

Is fir é sin!

Tá iar-uachtarán amháin (Sarkozy) agus iar-phríomhaire amháin (Fillon) ciontaithe le déanaí ag an mbreitheamh.

Dúirt La Fontaine (17ú haois) áfach:

« Selon que vous serez puissant ou misérable, les jugements de cour vous rendront blanc ou noir. »

Visiter l’expo annuelle de @worldpressphoto.bsky.social est toujours une expérience bouleversante.

Cette année, j’ai été interpellé par cette photo qui montre Susan, une jeune femme qui enseigne le kurde dans un village syrien.

Le régime interdit cette langue, mais des bénévoles résistent.

J’ai découvert un nouveau monde, le campisme. Et étonnamment, il transcende les divisions partisanes. J’ai l’impression que le mode est divisé en deux, ceux qui aiment ne voir qu’une seule tête et les autres…
Biskoazh 🤯

A small red stone chapel with a grey tile roof and a small bell tower. In front are several troughs of pink and red flowers.

This cute little chapel in Langon, Brittany is actually a repurposed Roman bathhouse thought to date to the 4th century. Inside it can be found an ancient fresco of Venus emerging from the waves (although I didn't get to see that as it was locked on the date I visited...). #RomanSiteSaturday.

How many hands? How many languages? 🫣

A detailed map of the Mediterranean basin rotated 90 degrees clockwise immediately disrupts the sense of a familiar landscape and makes the sea and surrounding coatslines of Greece, Italy and North Africa seems like maps from a fantasy novel or mysterious fictional realm.

It’s all a matter of perspective…

Gourc’hemennoù dit ;)

Gâteau breton — Wikipédia

[kɥiɲəˈmãn] si prononcé en breton (ça n’arrive pas souvent dans la rue). Ça m’amuse parce que pour moi (enfin ma grand-mère), c’est le nom du gâteau breton ! 🤯

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En regardant le lien de Devri, je vois que la "Loudieg" était attestée avant l'article auquel je pensais.

Pour info, un vestige du net (qui vaut ce que ça vaut)
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Non, il a eu un article qui proposait des versions bretonnes pour des noms de lieu en Hte-Bretagne qui a lancé la forme.
On peut entendre Lodaog en breton parlé dans région de Pontivy si je ne m’abuse.
Références à venir…

Je crois qu’il y a eu une petite erreur lors de la traduction du nom de l’association. Il s’agit de "Association pour la promotion de la logorrhée russe en France".
Franchement, c’est pas facile tous les jours 📣📣📣🐒