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daily reminder that ‘time’ is an exact cognate with ‘demon’ (δαίμων)

Languages my ancestors spoke 1. German 2. Icelandic 3. Scottish Gaelic 4. Nahuatl 5. Irish 6. English 7. Spanish 8. Norwegian 9. Maghrebi Arabic 10. Ojibwe 11. Basque 12. Welsh 13. Mesopotamian Arabic

Ridiculous that the two most prominent Semitic tribes take their names from the roots ʕ-b-r (Hebrews) and ʕ-r-b (Arabs). Real Luigi vs Waluigi type silliness

just occurred to me that baetyl comes from bayt-ʾil 🤯

graphemic rorschach test: what letter do you see here?

#Ancient_Dhofari grammar notes. The inscriptions are starting to clarify the grammatical profile of the language of the Dhofari texts. One inscription attests the prayer 𝒉𝒈̇𝒕̱-𝒉 'help him!' /haġiṯ-hu/. We see a h-causative and h-suffix pronouns. Old Mehri? See edition below.

Whale vocalizations not only resemble human vowels, but also behave like ones! We previously discovered that sperm whales have analogues to human vowels. In a new preprint, we analyze linguistic behavior of whale vowels.

as someone who knows little about modern greek: is tsakonian really doric?

Handwritten Fayyumic Coptic, notice how the tail end of the letter Ϣϣ (read: Shai) curves opposite way here so it can be connected to the following letter. Whenever I write (Cursive) Coptic I tend to do the same. A cursive Coptic standard (or standards) never got established