Gustavo Petro zegt het klip en klaar. Meer van dit graag.

I just wrote a letter: Friends don’t let friends fund apartheid: Stop JNF Canada’s attempt to evade CRA revocation. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/frie...

Arabic Linguistics - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2025 www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

PSA to students of Maltese-Romance syntactic contact: qalhom ("he said them") != qallhom ("he said to them")

"Diglossia as Ideology" by Kristen Brustad. In: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World 🧶

The same practice of genocide has been occurring in Gaza, the authors are the same: US, UK and Israel.

The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/zy/gb/20...

"Egypto-Semitic comparison: Some considerations on bilabials and dentals relationship" by Massimiliano Franci

On the etymology of Portuguese "Saudade": an instance of multiple causation? By Leo Pap

Decolonizing Linguistics. Edited by Anne Hudley, Christine Mallinson & Mary Bucholtz DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197755259.001.0001

Interesting to know the word paradise/ paraiso comes from Old Persian.

Iranian words in the hebrew bible: ḫšaçapāvan > Hebrew ʾăḥašdarpān ‘satrap’, apadāna > Heb ʾappeden 'palace', ganzabarab > Heb. gizbār ‘treasurer’, ganzaka > Heb. ganzak ‘treasury’, dāta > Heb. dāt ‘law’, nidāna > Heb. nādān ‘sheath’, ništāvan > Heb. ništĕwān ‘letter’,...

"On the Original Home of the Semites" by Jehoshua Grintz www.jstor.org/stable/543582

Jehoshua Grintz wrote this:

Arabic is the most beautiful language ever.

Soubhiyé - in Lebanese Arabic ... soubhiyé refers to that period of time in the morning when no one else is awake but you

The most plausible hypothesis about the genetic affiliation of the Elamite language:

For those interested there's an Elamite Dictionary online ⬇ ids.clld.org/contribution...

"The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing" by François Desset et al.

The 2 trilingual Achaemenid cuneiform inscriptions of Ganjnameh in Iran, written in Old Persian, Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Elamite. The one on the left was created on the order of King Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (r. 486–465 BC)

All you need to know about Persian language aspirantum.com/blog/all-you...

"The Iranian and Azari languages" by Vahid Rashidvash

Metanoia by Baris Pekcagliyan

The Oldest Old Persian Inscriptions doi.org/10.2307/595567

"Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE: an investigation into pattern replication and societal multilingualism" by Robin Meyer serval.unil.ch/en/notice/se...

Turkic Iranian Contacts www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tur...

"Decolonization of language and Linguistics in the Global South: relational ontologies, pluriversality and territories of difference" by my colleague Aldo Ocampo. www.scielo.br/j/eb/a/6hNyQ...

"Justice-oriented pedagogies seek decolonization through the reimagination of existing racialized systems in which the linguistic practices of the White middle class are valorized while the linguistic practices of minoritized peoples are viewed as non-academic, non-scientific, or inappropriate."

Achaque is widely used in some regions in South America, didn't know it comes from Arabic ^-^

The authors said these words are not used in the Americas but cachaza is widely used in its original form.

On the etymology of Portuguese "Saudade": an instance of multiple causation? By Leo Pap

Arabismos de origen portugués presentes en las hablas canarias: de la marineria están anequín, afonsiño, albajar, lula, quelme, ruazo, seifía, margullar 'sumergir', tarrafa, y albazul.

Happy to be blocked by "linguists" who support the genocide, there are a lot. I wish peace for all, free Palestine, Gaza won't fall.

Ni "bazar" ni "atlas" son palabras árabes, la primera es persa y la segunda griega. La palabra árabe está en español: "alfombra". Lindo aviso.

Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic by Assaf Bar-Moshe discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

A reminder that @contemplevant.bsky.social is always keen to hear from new book reviewers. The list of titles we'd love covering is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... and recent additions include Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas The Laws and Teachings of the Bahá’í Faith (Ghaemmaghami and Vafai)...

Pa-Canaan in the Egyptian New Kingdom: Canaan or Gaza? doi.org/10.2458/azu_...

"Tatami: The enigmatic toponym of western Judah, and use of suffixes in dating toponyms" by Noam Agmon

how Spinoza distinguished his philosophy from the scholastics and Descartes: “some begin with the world and others with the mind of man; I begin with God” [great discussion of this in Althusser’s _philosophy of the encounter_, pgs. 176-177]

"Linguistic Contact and Tracing Persian Construction onto Khuzestani Arabic Structures" by Samad Suzani and Shohreh Zakerin

"Russian Loanword Adaptation in Persian; Optimal Approach" by Aliyeh Kord and Sadat Hashemi

"Short Aramaic Inscriptions from Ancient Southern Caucasia" by Nicolas Preud’Homme

The Caylus vase

"An Outline of the Synchronic and Diachronic Variations of Sumerian" by Jinrui Geng

"The bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan text of the golden plates of Pyrgi" by Paolo Agostini and Adolfo Zavaroni

"Unser house was of stone”. A text in the arabic dialect of ṣummēl in the Gaza district by Werner Arnold journals.uco.es/index.php/ed...

"Phonological aspects of al-Issa Arabic, a Bedouin dialect in the north of Jordan" by Anas al Huneety et al.

الحمدوشية الأندلس m.youtube.com/watch?v=IB65...