Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

It's true! 👀 NEW BOOK | A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam by @phillipwstokes.bsky.social Read freely online or buy a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #OAbooks #SemiticSeries #OpenAccess

My new book is officially out! It's published Open Access with Cambridge's Semitic Languages and Cultures series, and can be freely downloaded here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

So my translations of al-Dani's Taysir is out! So what is this text about? It is a description of seven canonical reading traditions of the Quran authored by the Andalusi polymath ʾAbū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Saʿīd al-Dānī (371/981–444/1053).

If all goes well, February 4th will be the day that my translation of al-Dani's Taysir comes out (and if not then, very very soon). It was a lot of work, but I'm very happy with the end result. And best of all: It'll be Open Access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Excited to finally have the official cover of my forthcoming book, which will be in Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series (Open Book Publishers). For a blurb, see link below. No official date for publication yet, but hopefully within a month or so!

New publication: www.academia.edu/127029112/20... My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading

The interrogative 'why' in #Semitic languages: - Classical Arabic: li-māðā - Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š) - Modern Hebrew: la-ma - Syriac: l-mānā - Turoyo: l-mən - Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt - Amharic: lä-mən - Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh - Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m) (1/2)

My latest article, studying a unique gospel translation via three MS witnesses – is out in BSOAS: www.academia.edu/108303483/20...