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Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak
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Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
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I love the Soviet ones that had an additional column saying “through whose fault”: the printing house or the author.
An errata attached to the Grammar of the Turkish Language by A. N. Kononov, showing the usual columns: page, line, for, read, but also: through whose fault (the information being: either the printing house or the author).
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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mattitiahu.bsky.social
Anyway, long story short, by the time I got home to try to get to the bottom of this I realised it obviously wasn't in Armenian, but it's actually Ottoman Turkish in Armenian letters.

A little bit of Googling later I found out the Ինճիլի Շէրիֆ on the spine = Turkish İncili şerif 'The Holy Bible'.
Page of the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew in Ottoman Turkish in Armenian script.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ksymil.bsky.social
www.vu.lt/en/news-even...
New AI the Vilne-Yiddish Model, Developed at VU, Enables Recognition of Handwritten Yiddish Texts
Vilnius University is a prestigious institution of science and studies in Lithuania, which develops world-class science and develops science-based international studies.
www.vu.lt
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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digitalorientalist.bsky.social
The digitized version of the database is available here, lexicon-magnum-latino-sinicum.herokuapp.com/lemmas/a038-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ksymil.bsky.social
I have never heard of any examples referring to sibilants (in any position in a word), only stops.
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM