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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 7h

:( Yeah, unis are so terrible with that sort of thing. I try to tell myself that they simply had too many to reply to, but, then again, hardly an excuse.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 7h

May be get started with an e-mail pitch to Mark Hale? I think he is the main IE in Canada right now, right?

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 8h

Open access: “Notes on the grammar of Andakí [a little-known, extinct language of southern Colombia, which is possibly an isolate]” by Jelien Moens and Matthias Pache (Oct. ’25) langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 7h

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 8h

Fair enough, can’t argue with that. We can indeed call the kat “puss”.

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 1d

Come learn Coptic! In partnership with the Religion Department, I developed a two-part introduction to Coptic via close study of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. Come learn about ancient languages and sayings of Jesus!

Part 1: Starts Oct. 27 | Part 2: Jan. 5

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 2d

Labiodental borrowed as interdental:

Taino > Spanish guayaba > English guava > Arabic juwāfa > Anywa (South Sudan/Ethiopia):

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 2d

... to highlight that difference, Patagonia should be its own thing too.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 2d

Very cool, thanks for compiling this. However, I don’t get the logic of separating out Anglo-America from Mexico and Mesoamerica instead of a collective North America. Of course, languages in the Anglo-North are more threatened but this is also true of the extreme south. So, if the goal was ...

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 2d

Very interesting thank you.

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Ḥamid Ouyachi @hamidouyachi.bsky.social · 3d

Forthcoming:

First two books to roll out of G'town U Press's Amazigh Studies Series:

1. Brahim Akhiate, The Amazigh Revival (translated by Paul Raymond)

2. Aksil Azergui, Bread of the Ravens (translated, revised & edited by Hamid Ouyachi)

Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 4d

The first translations in the Amazigh Studies series published by Georgetown University Press! These stunning covers highlight our visual identity! Send us your proposals! If you are coming to MESA, stop by our booth at the book fair. We’ll have swags and literature to share!

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 3d

... and thet ‘that’, but all modern Frisian varieties have d-initial reflexes, not t- (s- in Öömrang) as might be expected. Likewise in Scandinavian.

In German & Dutch, this voicing went further and all þ > d, but in Frisian and Scandinavian, the specific effect on pronominals is clear.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 3d

Initial voicing of the 2.sɢ pronoun and þ-determiners seems to have happened not just in English (thou, this, that, etc. all with /ð/), but throughout continental Germanic (thus sparing Icelandic and Faroese) starting after the medieval period.

Old Frisian (ca. 1300–1500 AD) had thū ‘thou’ ...

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 3d

someone finally broke the stagnancy with a 100$ donation. we’re still far from the 4500$ goal that would give us shelter again. Please lets do it ❤️🥺

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 4d

*was* — she passed away in 2016 it looks like

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 4d

She has a page on North Frisian Wiki: frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_H...

Karen Heide Ebert – Wikipedia

frr.wikipedia.org

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 4d

... the 70’s & 80’s on Fering by one “Ebert, Karen H.” and I was like, wait, that name sounds familar??

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 4d

Karen Ebert, who I always knew for her work on Chamling (and other Kiranti languages of the central Himalayas) is a native-speaker of Fering (close sister of Öömrang) North Frisian!!

I accidentally found this out today on a flight because some Frisian stuff I was reading referenced some work in ...

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 4d

IF YOU CARE PLEASE SHARE.

Gaza today is emerging from a war that has exhausted it with no jobs, no homes, and no sources of livelihood. We have lost almost everything, and prices have risen to unprecedented levels.

At such a time, please do not leave us alone to face the cold and hunger.

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org