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The Quran displays various arrangements of mysterious, disconnected letters. The magico-sacred aspect of the alphabet stretches far into the pre-Islamic past. This Safaitic text begins with a prayer to Allāt followed by a partial abecedary.

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how does it hold up?

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Mimir: eg e så jævlig lei av rike folk og bedriftsledere som lyver

Forslag til parole: Ja til et Norge hvor Vy er billigere enn fly

would be cool to make a similar graphic on the gradual loss of the Old Norse case system in North Germanic

every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know

this ^
Phonology isn't the area where Icelandic is the most conservative, I would argue. There's a lot of transphonologicalization, but also a ton of innovations. Morphology is the main area where Icelandic's archaicness starts to show

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#quebec #French words that came from our First Nations peoples in #Canada. #français #FLE #lingua #langue #linguistics

The French names 'Étienne' and 'Stéphane' have the same origin.

Both stem from Ancient Greek 'Stéphanos', meaning "crown".

'Étienne' was inherited from spoken Latin. It has undergone sound changes for 2000 years.

'Stéphane' is a late borrowing from Latin.

Click to hear how 'Étienne' evolved:

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English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest".

However, despite their similar forms, 'wood' is not in any way etymologically related to 'woud' or 'Wald'.

'Woud' and 'Wald', which do have a common ancestor, are related to English 'wold' instead.

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Just realized the reason why the native term for wheat in Northern Norwegian (aka. 'kveite') didn't survive, is probably because we originally only grew barley ('bygg'). Instead most use 'hvete', which is the bokmål form
#linguistics
#langsky

pretty handwriting

Plenty of words on this list that are likely to feature in even the most carefully apolitical language documentation project, including:

- cultural heritage
- gender
- ethnicity
- gender
- historically
- minority
- socioeconomic
- status

Is it odd that I try to use the form, 'Lūqā' when introducing myself in Arabic? It's attested in the Arabic bible, from Classical Syriac. (Originally 'Loukâs' on Greek). The Arabic/Syriac form is just more aesthetically pleasing to me than just لوكاس.
#Arabic
#Langsky
#Linguistics

Wiktionary says the word might be an Aramaic loan (from zaləmṯā 'man')

Pretty early on in Arabic we learned that the shami form of رجل (rajul, 'man') is رجال (rijjāl). But in Amman (where I'm currently doing an exchange semester) they barely use that. Instead they say زلمة (zalame), which funnily enough has a feminine ending despite being a masculine noun

I've heard several claims online that broken plurals were originally just collective nouns, which grammatically functioned as feminine singular nouns. Is this related to the PIE-thing, or is it just a coincidence?

Why does Arabic non-human plurals take feminine singular agreement? Are there any good papers or books on this?

I've always wondered if the fenomenon is similar to the feminine gender in PIE, which grammaticalized from a collective suffix.

#arabic #linguistics #langsky

Why is [ʏ] used in the nynorsk example? Isn't it [ʉ]?

I mean sometimes people have to. There are a lot of Norwegian names that are notoriously difficult to render in Arabic, often to the point where it's just easier to use a different name. 'Inna' for 'Ingeborg' springs to mind

A supermajority of Americans support ceasefire in Gaza.

Among voters, 3 in 4 Democrats and 1 in 3 Republicans don't just want a ceasefire -- they oppose Israel's invasion of Gaza.

How has Congress responded?

Of Democrats, just 30% have called for a ceasefire. Republicans? 0%.

Collective noun - Singulative noun
dajâj "chicken" - dajâja "a chicken"
waraq "leaves" - waraqa "a leaf"
shajar "trees" - shajara "a tree"

I've now learned that this sentence is actually wrong. سمك (samak) alone is a collective noun, 'fish'. The word for an individual fish is سمكة (samaka). There's a general pattern where collective nouns are masculine singular, and the corresponding nouns for individual entities are feminine singular.

The word 'language' stems from the same root as 'tongue'.

'Language' comes from an Old French derivation of Latin 'lingua' (tongue), which was 'dinguā' in Old Latin.

'Dinguā' was a distant cousin of the Proto-Germanic ancestor of 'tongue'.

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The word 'clean' has the same ancestor as German and Dutch 'klein' (small; little).
 
The meaning of this common Proto-Germanic ancestor is reconstructed as "shining".
 
In the Germanic daughter languages, this meaning shifted following different paths.
 
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"Two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s population of 2.3 million have been made homeless by the war and every available space in Khan Younis and other southern towns is crammed."

A million people in northern Gaza asked to move south. People discussing a humanitarian corridor so Gazans can leave the strip altogether. This is displacement. Nakba over and over again

Ivar Aasen himself used it sparingly. But the times he did use it, I think he had a preference for plural forms, usually after prepositions. From Heimsyn 1875: "sjå med augom", but still "fraa Fastlandet" and "giva tanken"

Yes! Trøndersk is not one of those dialects haha