Benjamin Suchard
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Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
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New
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paper on what 'first', 'second', 'third' tell us about the
#Semitic
family tree, including new evidence for Aramaeo-Canaanite! Note that unfortunately, the names of Ethiopian scholars have been metathesized, something that will hopefully be remedied before the final print version. 🐦🐦
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive deriv....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968x.70003
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Just received my first submitted manuscript for Oxford Semitic Languages and Linguistics 😎 Just two small problems: I'm not involved with that series, and also, it doesn't seem to exist. 🤖
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ
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You gotta love how Caucasians literally undo centuries of sound changes to pronounce Arabic (voiceless) emphatics as ejectives. Listen to this Chechen woman’s طيف as тӀойф.
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Редкие и красивые имена #arabic #english #lingualand #ингушетия
YouTube video by Khava Tsechoeva
https://youtube.com/shorts/dicGmR7fJno?si=R4Cvw8OqLMUYU0Xv
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🏳️⚧️ Josephine Riesman 🕎
3 days ago
What I love about the Hebrew Bible, more than anything else, is it's a collection of viral meme templates that have been in continuous use by shitposters since before recorded history began
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Is Saudi in
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al-suʕūdiyya or al-saʕūdiyya? If the former, why a in Saudi—does it represent the ayn?
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#TIL
that it's the Persian Wars that separate the Greek Archaic period (800–480) from the Classical one (480–323). Basic to people in the field I'm sure, but new to me.
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Jenneke van der Wal
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Being available; sharing network and resources; giving timely feedback; offering opportunities and learning moments (e.g. co-reviewing a paper, organising a conference, co-presenting - these are things you have to learn somehow). Oh and be kind - there is enough harshness in academia.
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Roland Schuhmann
7 days ago
badb s. bodb s. badb s. bodb ...
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De beren in de bus smeren brood brood brood Brood brood brood Brood brood brood De beren in de bus smeren brood brood brood O, het is een wonder
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Schnitza Fars
5 days ago
might cause me to get disbarred as a linguist but I just wrapped individual pieces of lasagne up in tin foil and wrote "lasagnum" on them in a Sharpie, cracking up internally
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Imar Koutchoukali
6 days ago
Thanks google very useful
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Looks like Levantine
#Arabic
ʕuṭle 'holiday' and ʕāṭil 'bad' are from the same root, probably in the sense of the Classical verb ʕaṭila 'to lack, be idle'.
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Dr Alex Cruikshanks
7 days ago
"Nah, I'm a lifelong Greens supporter" - Ancient Romans when asked if they're White
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The debuccalization of *q and its consequences have been a disaster for the Levantine dialects.
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Adanedhel🌹
8 days ago
I was today years old (the Swahili derivation).
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Maybe one month of hearing the guy in my Levantine Arabic course say 'again' and only now I realize that it's marra tānye 'a second time' and not some weird Classical nominative dual like marratāni 😭
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/nəˈθænjəl/
8 days ago
"Daisy" comes from Old English dæġes ēage [ˈdæ.jes ˌæ͜ɑː.ɣe], which literally means "day's eye."
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Jamie Pietruska
9 days ago
Buried the lede: "(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)"
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Safaitic
9 days ago
A brilliant thread by my brilliant friend
@bnuyaminim.bsky.social
. But let's think about this circumstantial evidence a bit more. Are names really indicative of one's language or ethnicity (hard to pin that down actually)? This Nabataean from NW Arabia belongs to the clan of Banī Baʿlnatan...
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#TIL
the
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word for the mail, barīd, is from
#Latin
veredus 'light horse' (via Greek), making it a distant cognate of
#Dutch
paard and
#German
Pferd. The Latin word was borrowed from
#Celtic
– can't imagine there are very many other Celtic words in Arabic! 📧🐎
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@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social
look how pleased with himself he looks
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Elephant bull leaves ARTIS | Two elephants pregnant
ARTIS Zoo elephant bull is travelling to WILDLANDS, while two female Asian elephants at ARTIS Zoo are pregnant. This is an important step for the European species conservation programme and the future...
https://www.artis.nl/en/artis-zoo/news-from-artis-zoo/elephant-bull-leaves-artis-zoo-two-elephants-pregnant
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Moose Allain
10 days ago
Which ancient Egyptian was most modest about their views? Imho tep
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🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿 Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four
#Nabataean
texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me: 1/6
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Elvira Martín-Contreras
10 days ago
Was there really an oral Hebrew Masora before the written one? My latest article questions this widely held assumption. It's open access, and you can read it here:
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Was There Ever an Oral Hebrew Masora?
The essay challenges the existence of an oral Hebrew Masora that purportedly preceded the written Masora. The concept of an oral Masora originated in the 16th century, when Jacob ben Hayyim and Elías ...
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0498/chapters/10.11647/obp.0498.04
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Hadas Weiss
10 days ago
sorry but you met me at a very don't do peer reviews time in my life
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Jews think of an original boy's name challenge, Biblical edition
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10 days ago
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Cool, I mean, 𐢓𐢞𐢓𐢇
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Nabataean Keyboard Online • Lexilogos
Nabataean Alphabet - Online keyboard to type a text with the Nabataean script
https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/nabataean.htm
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/nəˈθænjəl/
12 days ago
Ever wonder where the name Gaylord comes from? I did. It's from the Old French surname Gaillard (from gaillard (“strong”)), brought to England by the Normans. The spelling is the result of folk etymology.
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What's up with
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adjectives like suḫn 'hot', ḥulw 'sweet'? Normally, *CuCC- adjectives shouldn't be reconstructible. They look like abstract nouns; was there a development like 'food of sweetness' > 'sweet food', with reanalysis?
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NINO Leiden
13 days ago
The deadline for the Incoming and Outgoing Mobility Grants, the Conference Grant and the Student Research Assistant funding is coming up soon: the 15th of November. For more information, see the NINO funding page:
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Funding
NINO initiates, supports, and conducts scholarly research in the civilizations of the Near East from the ancient to the early modern period. In particular, it concentrates on the archaeology,…
https://buff.ly/gwxlsvl
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it’s M the Autumn Owl 🍁🍂
14 days ago
It’s that day, y’all. Time to do some Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald posting…
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Laura C. Dees
13 days ago
genuinely curious: what, according to my academic followers, are characteristics of good doctoral supervision?
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Elisabeth J. Kerr
14 days ago
Today in linguistic example sentences 🍅 (Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')
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Jenneke van der Wal
14 days ago
I offer you the turkeytail mushrooms in our back garden
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Hot take: if you post something nice and then go on to explain how crucial it is to find some distraction from the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad state of the world these days, that second part kind of ruins your post's distraction potential.
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VIEWS project
14 days ago
I am loving the layout of Ben's latest abecedarium! 😁 Kind of Ancient North Arabian style, what do you think?
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So this is cool. If I understand correctly, German für ultimately goes back to a PIE locative *préh₂-i, while G. vor goes back to a PIE dative *prh₂-éi. Different Ablaut grade in the root (lost in Germanic) and ending.
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One metric assload
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Zev זאב
15 days ago
Beat history names part III Ziyād ibn Abīh (Ziad son of his father) Herman the German Yaroslav the Eight-Minded Shoeless Joe Jackson Theodosius The Calligrapher Billy the Kid Sviatopolk the Accursed Ivan Moneybags
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Hadas Weiss
15 days ago
early career scholar and their first publication
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Nice use of versjteren <
#Yiddish
פֿערשטערען fershteren 'to spoil', cf.
#German
verstören.
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/nəˈθænjəl/
15 days ago
"quote" and "quoth" are not related. Quote is from Medieval Latin (via French) quotāre (“to distinguish by numbers, number chapters”), itself from Latin quotus (“which, what number"). Quoth is from ME quoth, quath, from OE cwæþ (first and third person past indicative of cweþan = to say).
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Have a look at Peter Huber's "On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Sumerian Grammar" available at
cdli.earth/articles/cdl...
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https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlp/1.0.pdf
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Favourite sentences from my Levantine
#Arabic
course so far: rāyḥa laḥalab 'I'm/you're/she's going to Aleppo' ʔēmta btibda? 'When does it (f.) start?' bfaḍḍel ʔibʔa bilbēt 'I prefer to stay at home'
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Schnitza Fars
15 days ago
well, it finally happened, as I always knew it would. I am so exhausted I looked at the cover of Roald Dahl's "BFG" and ask 5yo if he wanted to listen to the "Big Fucking Giant" audiobook
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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
16 days ago
sure, masoretes, this is referring to Daniel, a figure who even according to a literalist reading of its very figurative book live at the same time as Ezekiel, and not Danel father of Aqhat, a righteous non-Israelite of great antiquity who failed to save people alongside two other righteous etc.
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Maarten Kossmann
16 days ago
People do not talk enough about the fact that the Neo-Punic translation of Latin Imperator is a loan from Numidian (Lepcis Magna Neo-Punic 14: mynkd, Numdian MNKDH)
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Taking suggestions 👇
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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
17 days ago
forgot a 48) there 49) Sukkot is the most pagan of the holidays. It’s also the most Freudian. To paraphrase Dr. Benjamin Sommer, we shake a giant leaf-raining phallus as sympathetic magic so as to encourage the storm god to inseminate the earth mother with his bountiful rain-sperm
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🍁 Plant #769 🌵 I figured it out in 1 guess! 🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 1
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
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Metaflora
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!
https://flora.metazooa.com
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