Impressive WR 100% all screenshots community notes run by Google here.

In case anyone with a calligraphy interest is still following me, I’m teaching this style of Eastern Kufi on June 15-16 in London, to a small group of 5-6 people max. Full details and booking here majnouna.com/shop/courses/

Massinissa N’Aït Bouycef Oui:
> bu-mḥnd = insi = hérisson
> ɛmmi bnḥir = izǝm = lion
> ikɛb = abaɣuɣ = renard
etc.

Chez les Aït Segoual, la langue des contes emploi des noms parfois différent de ceux du langage courant :
-bucεeṛ wuḏem « homme » (/argaz)
-ɛemmi belqaṣem « hérisson » (/anasi)
-butɣerruzan « loup » (/uccen), de taɣerruzt 'peau de chèvre'

Cela existe-t-il chez vous aussi ?

Nighteye Rurouni_Phoenix Yeah, few things illustrate the difference between medieval and modern standard Arabic as well as Google translate, which is highly serviceable at the latter but 'boil a baby grandpa' for the former.

Page from 'On Squaring and Circling' by al-Jahiz (d. 868/869 CE), found - somewhat unexpectedly - in the #Cairo #Genizah . It is one of the oldest surviving copies of any of al-Jahiz’s works (ca. 10th century). #manuscriptmonday

Baby giant anteater. Automatic retweet.

1/17 Does the earliest reading of Ex. 6:8, found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, indicate that “Isaac and Jacob” is a later addition (see image) as authors of “Abraham Fulfilled”, Abu Zakariya Adnan Rashid and Zakir Hussain claim? A thread on how *not* to do textual criticism.

Sorry to do this, but sometimes, Twitter is unintentionally hilarious. Thanks, Iskandar Ding !

The funny thing about it to me is that forms of Arabic with /ē/ were actually among the contributors of the Arabic loan component in Persian. For example, that's why معنی is pronounced that way in Persian.

The number of words in a language’s dictionary tells you nothing about how “rich” it is, but a lot about how nerdy the lexicographers are.

In this video I interview Bart Ehrman and Javad Hashmi about their upcoming online course the Bible and the Quran: Comparing their Historical Problems. You can find an affiliate link in the description of the video if you're interested in signing up:

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My NEW BOOK on the language ideology of the medieval Hebrew and Arabic grammarians is out!

It is open-access so you can DOWNLOAD FREE here:

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Did a generativist plant this tree?

My new interview with historical linguist Marijn van Putten, providing a broad overview of the present state of the field of Qur'anic studies & history of early Islam: e.g. the traditional life of Muhammad vs. the Qur'an text, Qur'anic Arabic and variant readings aymennaltamimi.com/p/quranic-stud…

Ǝgmiyatanaɣ maṣnat dad tǝlla

Ottǝrǝtank tǝmušna ell aš tilla

Southern Amazigh word :

sens : Hôte , visiteur , étranger

#Tamajeq : amagar

#Zenaga : ǝmǝški

#Tetserret : ǝnǝgbow

La racine BGW/GBW qu'on retrouve en tetserret semble être la plus rependu dans les langues amazigh septentrional .

Phwoar, look at this specimen!

Mortified at the number of things in this world which could be improved simply by people tweeting less about them

Rurouni_Phoenix new day new theory for our friends at Pfander 😂