Punic word of the day: salus ‘three’ Famously referenced by St. Augustine.

Punic word of the day: κουλ (koul) ‘voice, speech’ Cognate with קול and قول.

obviously a lot of the sign values are correct but linear b is such a terrible writing system i find it hard to believe we’re reading it right

they should bring the vestal virgins back

Punic word of the day: sufet ‘judge, consul’ If you know a Punic word it’s probably this one.

Punic word of the day: ουλωμ (ulom) ‘eternity, age’ Cognate with עולם and عالم.

25 more years until we outlast the Ptolemaic dynasty 🥂

Is tophetgooning even worth it if roids will come and spike your carthisol

Punic word of the day: sanuth ‘years’ Happy 250th America! 🇺🇸

people really overuse ɸ and β in linguistic reconstruction

ahh yes, new england (medieval crimea)

Punic word of the day: macom ‘place’ Cognate with מקום and مقام. This word has o in place of the usual u corresponding to Hebrew ō and Arabic ā. Something something triphthongs.

Gilgamus non Gilgamesh

>8th month is named after a guy called Octavian

Punic word of the day: samem ‘heaven’

people who say there’s no such thing as the hardest language to learn never met someone who speaks chinatec

Punic word of the day: helicot/elichot ‘hospitality’ Cognate with הֲלִיכָה

Punic word of the day: hulec ‘guest’ Morphological equivalent of הוֹלֵךְ, semantic equivalent of הֵלֶךְ

Really weird Greek script on these Parthian coins. Looks almost like monumental Bactrian to me.

Punic word of the day: arun ‘sarcophagus, coffin’ ʾrn z pʿl ʾtbʿl bnʾḥrm mlkgbl lʾḥrm ʾbh Ithobalus Hiromides, king of Byblos, made this sarcophagus for Hiromus his father.

in my hearts of hearts i know the word Emir comes from Egyptian jm.j-rʾ and no one can convince me otherwise

Punic word of the day: rufe ‘doctor’

look at my praefect dawg i’m cooked

Old Chinese 烏弋山離 ‘Alexandria’ looks hella Slavic. Han dynasty people be like “Olekszánlyja”

Russian and Portuguese sound the same because they’re both next to Galicia

Mariupol Greek is easily my favorite modern dialect

Quechua q'aytu ‘thread, string, cord’ : Arabic ḫayṭu ‘id.’ Stay woke.

One thing about Elamite is they write /ni/ with the 𒉡 nu sign. Not sure what that’s about.

It’s true that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Yves Saint Laurent are some of the coolest names ever. But people are forgetting about Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

Sevastopol sounds like the name of a Hellenistic city but apparently it was founded in 1783.

reminder to myself to read this

olmecs were so chinese coded

when are we getting the helicopter and spaceship hieroglyphs in unicode

ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲧⲱⲛϥ!

ngl I don’t like how wiktionary puts breves on α/ι/υ in the headword. If it doesn’t have a macron we know it’s short!

Akkadians be like “south”

If people want to call Egypt by its native name I wish they would use the proper received form Chemia (Χημία) rather than the Egyptological “Kemet”

ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲧⲱⲛϥ!

Is it just me or does the Graeco-Babyloniaca look extremely Palmyrene

Wonder if there’s a connection between Old Persian Pirāva ‘Nile’ and Mandaic Piriawis, name of the "great river" (yardna rba) of heaven.

Quoc ngu completed the Latin alphabet by adding ư and ơ.

Middle English were getting kinda Egyptian with it

It’s basically a universal law that things from Iberia end up in Ireland and things from France end up in Britain, hence I choose to believe Goidelic shares a branch with Celtiberian and Brittonic with Gaulish

how it feels to read demotic

i hate when they add those little dots to old english text. let me interpret in peace

the loss of gutturals and p > f in punic give it quite a charming feel. canaanite with maltese characteristics

getting a bronze age burger at MaquiDubnowali

Just occurred to me that Καρχηδών is metathesized from *Καρθηγών. *karthāgōn > *karthēgōn > karkhēdōn. Seems kinda obvious now but I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere.

So what sound is High Valyrian ⟨vh⟩, as in ‘Vhagar,’ supposed to make?