The edited volume on associated motion arrived from De Gruyter Brill today and I definitely did NOT remember it being so thick

Katia Chirkova (CNRS-CRLAO) et Guillaume Jacques (CNRS/EPHE-CRLAO) sont contributeurs de la collection.

16 anni fa, moriva Boa Sr, discendente di una delle più antiche culture della Terra e l'unica a parlare il “bo”, una delle 10 lingue dei Grandi Andamanesi. "Andiamocene in un luogo più pulito dove possiamo ballare e ballare.” 1/4

Confs: 54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Confs: 4th Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia

Manifesting an independent Greenland 🇬🇱 Free from colonialists of all kinds

I'd very much like to go abroad as a visiting scholar for a couple of months in 26-27

El imperialismo lo hizo de nuevo, el maldito gobierno intervencionista y genocida de Estados Unidos lo hizo otra vez. Muerte al neocolonialismo y la ultraderecha.

My Christmas present to myself arrived earlier than expected! Now I can call myself a proud owner of the Kindaichi Kyōsuke zenshū! #ainu

Indecisive on what to give your family and friends for Christmas? Instead of a hideous, dust-collecting, last minute seasonal decoration you should opt for a donation to Ready to Revitalize 2026 for supporting Indigenous communities worldwide! @e-l-p.bsky.social givebutter.com/elp2025

All: In Memory of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson

Soyta meean yahka cise onnayketa pohke ike orota pirikano kumokoro omay ka kukoroho kueyayrayki. Tanto ka seremah kamuy enkasuyehe kueyayrayki.

Calls: Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles

I finally got my copy yesterday! It has been an honor contributing to this volume. And a really fine job by all the editors, too! 📚

📣📝 My new paper "Negation in Sakhalin #Ainu: History and Typology" to appear in the forthcoming issue of Studia Orientalia Electronica is now available (aop) here 👇 #negation #linguistics journal.fi/store/articl...

The piece isn't finished yet, and the resistance hasn't finished either 🏹

I finally got my copy yesterday! It has been an honor contributing to this volume. And a really fine job by all the editors, too! 📚

I'm sure I haven't mentioned it here (but did so at the time on the other social...) that this is the collection the index refers to.

📣📝 My new paper "Negation in Sakhalin #Ainu: History and Typology" to appear in the forthcoming issue of Studia Orientalia Electronica is now available (aop) here 👇 #negation #linguistics journal.fi/store/articl...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Sfrattare i #popoliindigeni dalle loro terre ancestrali è #colonialismo, anche quando lo si maschera da #conservazione. "Abbiamo convissuto con le tigri per secoli. Veneriamo la tigre come una divinità. Finché saremo vivi, le tigri saranno al sicuro" ha detto Muthamma del popolo Jenu Kuruba. 3/4

I've finally gotten the reviews to a paper I submitted more than a year ago and I almost don't even remember what I wrote about

Sumerian course finished last week (one of the best experiences in my life). I've already printed out the Gudea's Cylinders to translate as practice. #languagelearning

Tu sei #natura. Noi siamo natura. I #popoliindigeni sono natura. I popoli indigeni sanno che la natura non è separata dall’umanità. Non vivono semplicemente in armonia con il loro #ambiente - lo gestiscono, e meglio di chiunque altro! www.survival.it #earthday #22aprile

That nice and soft spring night light

Survival ha appena pubblicato un rapporto che dimostra che il #GreatNicobarProject avrebbe un impatto genocida sugli Shompen, e deve essere fermato! Leggi il rapporto (in inglese): svlint.org/ShompenReport E intervieni subito: svlint.org/email-Shompen-BS 3/3

Now that kosho.jp ships internationally via buyee I'm gonna need several people to restrain me (possibly even physically) from going on a frenzy shopping spree.

Any advice on places where to buy old (1940s-60s) Russian books online that are not Russian websites?

Any advice on places where to buy old (1940s-60s) Russian books online that are not Russian websites?

Cloudy but still beautiful Budapest

The Chiri Yukie Memorial Hall in Noboribetsu, honoring famous Ainu author of "Ainu Shin'yoshu" Yukie Chiri (1903–1922), is in trouble. Aging workers and limited personnel are forcing the museum to close two days a week. The hall is seeking new volunteers to maintain operations. kaih.at/QIcc8

New addition to my collection on Arctic exploration ❄️

Happy to announce that my new paper "A typology of the deictic day name system in Manchuric" has now been published open access and can be accessed here: edizionicafoscari.it/media/pdf/bo... Many thanks to Elia @tukotorkornociw.bsky.social for his great work editing the volume #linguistics

📝 My article on #Sakhalin #Ainu inferentials is finally out Available open access here: #linguistics #evidentiality edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4...

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

#OTD 141 years ago, Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was born 🥳 Anthropologist, phonologist, and an expert on Native American languages, he claimed (in 1918 in a letter to Alfred Kroeber) that "Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America". #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Please consider signing this petition to stop Cardiff Uni from getting rid of its Modern Languages program. www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

Not a good day to ponder on grammatical aspect and mood...

I'm sure I haven't mentioned it here (but did so at the time on the other social...) that this is the collection the index refers to.

@avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social Hey, good to see you on here too! =)

Conference "Emerging Topics in Typology", Leipzig, June 3-5 (deadline for abstracts: January 31st) www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-a...

I can't believe this is finally done 🫠 #Ainu #linguistics

Please consider signing and/or sharing this petition against the reduction of teaching and research capacity of East Asian Studies at Sheffield Uni. #languages #university www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...

I'm very disappointed I cannot move my X feed here, but honestly I feel it was time for the decision of getting out of there.

Irankarahtee!