i wish there was a monograph titled "the arabic dialect of salam al-rassi". there's a good 18 hours of video from his tv shows uploaded to the youtube channel salamalrassi (let's say that's 10+ hours of just his own speech, prob much more). probably the only archive of a traditional hasbayya dialect

this came up on my reddit feed. fucking fascinated by how dated it already is. not a single 6 7 or 6 1

inordinately proud of this etymology section, the way it just kind of works

I can't unsee the fact that yaḷḷah could just be the verlan for allez-y

noticed that i reduce "lemme" to just "me" and i can't stop thinking about how stupid it sounds "me go grab my charger"

i showed someone ociana ociana.osu.edu

the one other weird dual we have is ṣabe "boy" ṣabyēnēn "two boys" ṣobyēn "boys" i wonder if it's *ṣobyēnēn from the plural + -ēn (no singulative ة bc masculine!?) and then we shifted the vowel to match the singular for some contrivable reason

#Testing a new #OCIANA functionality - let's map the attestations of the deity 𝒍𝒉 (Allāh, left) and the deity 𝒓𝒅̣𝒘 (Ruḍaw, right). We begin to see a geographic distribution come into focus...

a loooooong time ago i shared these two duals from my parents: neswēntēn "two women" (neswēn "women" + singulative ة + dual -ēn) ʕwaynēttēn "two pairs of glasses" (ʕwaynēt "glasses" + ditto) (first is normal, 2nd was come up with on the spot and i haven't heard it again) since then i've noticed/

remembered one of my favorite things on almaany.com: dawwārah (n): anything that does not move or revolve dawwārah (n): anything that moves or revolves

henry huxley predating a good half-decade of on-and-off wiktionary bikshedding by like a centurye

turkish vowel cube vs eldritch tripolitanian phonogon

these are all the lebanese references from last century that i know of, any more? • matthsson 1911 beiruti phonology • bergsträsser 1915 sprachatlas von syrien und palästina • feghali 1919 kfarabida • harfouche 1923 dictionary • frayha 1938 quadriliterals in ras l-matn

the dative suffix -l- attaches to words with final CC# clusters as -vll-: kibbilli "throw away for me" kabballi "he threw away for me" ʕam tinraddalli r-rūħ "i'm getting my energy back", lit "'the spirit' is getting returned-to-me" in these examples it always assimilates to the preceding vowel

« je commence à douter de ma correction » ("i am starting to doubt my correction")

green: i use this word purple: i know this word bc it's common in msa or in another dialect i know yellow: i don't use this word but its meaning is intuitive to me (fainter = less confident) red: that's not what this word means for me blank: i don't know & can't understand this word at all

sound: katab–yektob "to write" nkatab "it was written" kēteb "has written" maktūb "written.ADJ" hamzated, urban: ʔakal–yēkol "to eat" nʔakal "it/he was eaten" ʔēkel "has eaten" maʔkūl "eaten.ADJ" hamzated, ~rural: ʔakal–yēkol "to eat" ttēkal "it/he was eaten" mēkel "has eaten" mettēkal "eaten.ADJ"

Words in the speech bubble: if you cannot live with little, you cannot live with a lot... satiety is in the heart... (slurp) turn your eye away from that which your paw cannot reach...

like in 2022 i was like "a guy ik from batroun says ʕaṭyo 'they gave' instead of ʕaṭo, wb other wazns like štaryo 'they bought'? yištiryo?" and found these tweets, from which we in this server concluded it must be a random innovation of a handful of villages the other day i finally started reading/

we know about spanish borrowing arabic words with the al- fused: aceite, alacrán how about the other way around: anis frayha recorded a lebanese card game named līxa aka *la* hija

hahaha there's a maronite village literally in the heart of north lebanon that had • /q/ like druze • ḡidir < qidir like palestinians • šqadd like syrians (altho i forget exactly who) • ʕamenno like my family of southern shiites • ḍårbīto "she hit him" like alawites DALE

- "a rat son of a bitch?" - "yeah, a soldier"

hey does anyone have a review of sprachatlas von syrien. what i really need is a review of sprachatlas von syrien. i dont need the actual sprachatlas von syrien i just really need to get my hopes up seeing a file named "sprachatlas von syrien" only to open it up and see that it's 1 page long thank u

joshua fox what is a stirpe

cook that fraud

Tipsened tricks

this talk says at 17:00 and 21:20 that Old Damascene had maghrebi-like sibilant assimilation, e.g.: zōz "husband" < žōz zəsr "bridge" < žəsr sams "sun" < šams saxṣ "an individual" < šaxṣ zəzoʔ "part" < žəzoʔ he also plays a song where he says the actor sings saxṣ although i couldn't hear it myself

maltese ⟨ie⟩: 1. words like qiem /ʔɪːm/, which is < *qyām but doesn't look like *qjiem today, demonstrate that the vowel really did go through a stage like */i͡e/ -- i.e.(!) *qyi͡em > *qi͡em south lebanese dialects had a shift ēC# > īC# that's reversed (sometimes imperfectly) by younger generations,

"huh that sounds familiar": • lebanese ʔana w mēše "while i'm walking", normally in arabic w ʔana rather than ʔana w: maltese "jien u miexi" • lebanese tēʔa "small window", dayyiʔ/diyyiʔ/ðiyyiʔ "tight" < ar. ṭāqah, ḍayyiq: maltese tieqa, dejjaq (i think this one is much more than just lebanon)

en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?... in 1861 jules ferrette, whose wikipedia page is very suspicious of him for some reason, spent a few hours sojourn in the village of maaloula two years later he published six pages of writeup and i think it's our earliest surviving ~treatise on western neo-aramaic

bro i wrote a thread on the western neoaramaic village names and i forgot to hit post 😵‍💫 well the gist was the names are odd, someone i know noticed that maaloula's arabic AND aramaic names look mixed: maʕlūlā (arabic name): v arabic passive ptcpl maCCūC, but aramaic absolute -ā and √ʕll "to enter"

love how the plural of sama is samawat that "y" must feel like this rn

24-year-old me: I guess I'll sign up for an Arabic class now 38-year-old me: spent my whole work day trying to figure out (1) where the 3MP/3CP perfect suffix is -aw in pause vs. -ū in context, and (2) where it alternates according to position in *word* (i.e. -aw without suffix, -ō with suffix)

anis freiha prefacing his english–leb dictionary of lebanese proverbs (1974)

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Absolute nightmare transliteration system in this revista

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annals of wiktionary's hummus page

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

unbelievably rich text from fleisch 1974, i highlighted everything unusual to me ʔornet šahwān is a maronite village in matn, lebanon (nearby a village called ʕayn ʕār which i knew someone in college from!) and this story was recorded sometime after 1964 by an elder villager who passed afterwards

so we repeatedly do this thing where we nasalize vowels after /m/ but then decide that the /m/ can't rly be the reason for the nasalization and it must actually be coming from an /n/ that we then insert chalumeau > šalimōn "drinking straw" comodino > komondīna "nightstand" remote > rimōnt (> rimōn)

inexplicable pronunciations of mine i've noticed this week painstaking /pe͡ɪnste͡ɪkiŋ/ like pain-staking codswallop /kɑdswɑləp/ like cod-swallop but: groundswell /ɡɹa͡ʊndzwɛl/ like grounds-well

a fun etymology fact: the earliest attestation we have of the verb “go ham” is a Soulja Boy song from 2007

Also "sibling" started off in Old English but just referred to any family member and was last used traditionally in 1425, dropping off for nearly 500 years before Karl Pearson and Alice Lee brought it back in 1903 for biology to do what Geschwister in German could

parents have reported that at least in their village a traditional name for labneh is said to be mawžūde, literally "present.F", in the sense that it's always present (the way i heard it btw it was transmitted to *them* as trivia by an elder so who knows how long since it's been in real common use)

wiktionary etymology day longstanding mystery possibly solved thanks to someone else helping connect the dots to bābūr and char...! my one thing is that i've never heard of the frigate word, but on the other hand i've never used firtayke myself for anything either, so maybe im just out of the loop

one single tweet that uses all three of • og "original" (originally meant "original gangster") • js "just" (originally meant "just saying") • ts "this" (originally meant "this shit")

So I was trying to talk to myself in Turkish this morning and I produced <mağaza> as /maʕaza/ on accident. I thought it was funny to pronounce a French loan that way but, lo and behold, it's from the same root but it never went through French at all