the ancient egyptian word for a female dog was whore there's no way 𓅱𓉔𓂋𓏏𓃡 whr.t => ⲟⲩϩⲟⲟⲣⲉ so pronounced /ˈwhɔːrə/

Well yeah, the name kind of gave it away

I went to college and never had to study but studied anyways because impostor's syndrome then I went to two colleges at once because one was too easy then I kept acing subjects I didn't know existed (not a joke I passed a lot of stuff I found out existed on the bus to the exam)

by the way. people only ever use "Gaza" and "Gomorrha" as examples of transcriptions of ghayn in the LXX. why. Ik those are famous ones but just skimming i found so many more.

I remembered about this so I made a table of septuagint equivalents, because I don't love KJV orthography

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proto-indo-european is estimated to be coæval with both proto-semitic and (actually attested) old egyptian. meanwhile proto afroasiatic is estimated to be an order of magnitude older I hadn't really realized this until now

this is the pattern I've seen in those multilingual ads, and I find it extremely interesting Greek translates, Armenian transcribes. works both ways.

More Annuaire Oriental goodness (1880s-1890s Constantinople)

I wake up with a question like "do syriac transcriptions of greek proper names in the peshitta use a waw as a mater lectionis for omicron normally" and so I make a list of strictly greek or roman proper names in the new testament, and i look up their equivalents in the peshitta, and i make an excel

i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous

I'm disgraphic and contrarian about it seemingly. I also don't remember the stuff that set me on this path because everything happened twice in the most confusing way possible. seriously it's the weirdest story but lss now I like languages and being occitan I work on the occitan language

#AceWeek Men's voices are often overlooked in this community. I write about my own experiences to show other men out there who are ace/demi or think they might be ace/demi, that they are not alone. They are not broken or weird for not feeling what the men around them seem to feel. Society 1/2

Il y a longtemps que je spécule que ces excellentes reflexions de la préface au Dictionnaire de Littré ont dû lui être inspirées par le contact qu'il a pu avoir avec le gallo de la région d'Avranches, plus rigoureux que le français de Paris sur l'opposition singulier/pluriel

it shouldn't be contentious to say that the emphasis on needing to be in a romantic relationship is heavily propagandized and socially engineered. asexuals have understood this forever, but ppl deny our existence and experiences and our own testimony

quelqu'un sait d'où ça vient ce mythe du développement affectif/émotionnel retardé chez les HPI?

and like. the OS is one thing. linux is fine I guess, it just wasn't really what I was looking for. the apps they recommend though... I may b*tch about modern Office all the time, but I will NEVER switch to libreoffice. I have never not resented having to use libreoffice.

When people tell me that honestly I just say I'm an ex-linux user (I used it during uni)

i found a neat way to romanize coptic: with romance-style vowels example with the months: thòut, paòpe, hathór, kòiahk, mšír, parmhòtp, parmúte, pašòns, paóne, epép, mesòré (one could come up with rules to use less accents while not losing much information, like what occitan has ofc)

I present, the lenition hypercube

❓ Petite enquête : les enseignant·es et les accents Nous recherchons des anecdotes, témoignages d’enseignant·es autour des accents. Avez-vous été confronté·e à des problèmes/remarques en enseignant “avec un accent” ? Comment gérez-vous votre accent ? Quels échanges avec vos élèves ? 1/2

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Ok, so my guess for the (an?) early pronunciation of Egyptian /ꜣ/ is that it was some kind of retroflex or perhaps even bunched approximant (in the vicinity of [ɻ] or [ɹ̈]). [...]

I used to hate the YouTube auto translate thing. But after seeing the words "le virus de l'esprit éveillé" made to sound exactly as stupid as they are, I think I'm reconciled with it

found an actual armeno-french book (french manual in armenian script, with translations in both armenian and armeno-turkish) very interesting in so many ways (including about french phonology) archives.webaram.com/livres/pdf/F... also it's got that typical 'politan typography with the smallcaps...

This captcha captures the zeitgeist of 2025 perfectly.

Seriously though omoris like the curse that never leaves. I played it like a few months after release and im still obsessed with it. Even when i forget about the game i still come back to it eventually (Also thread about headspace down below make sure to smash thats subscribe button and h

anyone knows why diachronic linguistics is kind of abandoned compared to synchronic in universities lately? at least in mine it is

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"

To be honest a lot of this “puriteen” hate is just acephobia and ageism disguised as progressive leftism.

It seems that BlueSky needs to hear this even more than other websites, so

I see we’re back to “anyone who claims their cognition doesn’t work exactly like mine is lying or inferior”

2025 is the year i finally started using windows vista as my daily driver, even for work.

Cadytis is gaza, right? that's the most regular way to transcribe ⲕⲁϫⲱⲧ into greek

@feldup-official.bsky.social youtube refait des siennes www.youtube.com/watch?si=AqG...

(1/2) A list of sentences in different Romance languages with absolutely nothing in common, whatsoever: FR: Un moment, tu parles probablement d’un petit accident. PT: Cada dia, cada vila deixa bons jardins de terra. IT: La vostra enorme proposta per la nostra casa serena era sempre curiosa.

If you ever lose this impulse you'll miss it dearly don't spit on it like that

An altar in Troy. I actually didn’t know that Troy was rebuilt ten times over thousands of years— there were ten Troys!!! You can tell from the material; they used mud bricks, then stones, then marble. This altar was clearly maintained over 1000s of years; it’s like a layer cake of civilizations.

Seriously what's up with the idea that the greeks made the phoenicians up

Okay, i've been reading a ton about both ancient greek dialects and local alphabets One thing i do not understand: why did crete have η?

none of you have that many opinions, do you

I get so much hate in North America for disliking cheese and getting pizza without cheese (“that’s not real pizza at all!!!!”) and then you go to Italy and it’s literally just a completely normal type of pizza you can easily order

I finally found them again!

If a bordeaux bottle is big enough it gets an akkadian name

Back in college (in India), there was a girl in our class named R̩tambʰarā ‘(she who) bears/contains truth/rightness’. Pretty cool seeing that this name is possibly attested two thousand years ago in my favorite Anatolian language.

Seriously why Who came up withh this

I'm a graphic designer now.

From the Olympians who brought you "Greece" and "The Other Side of Greece" comes the bold, innovative, and way shinier "GREECE TWO". youtu.be/LQ6xYeT4scU?... -B

it's really funny how french had so many sound changes that it forgot all phonotactic rules it once had. words can't start with sC- clusters? yes they can restrictions on word final consonants? not anymore less unstressed vowels than stressed ones? that din't last long.