Stuck at home with the flu and had to cancel my talk at SALSA today on Egyptian SL toponyms— those interested can check out the interactive map of city/governorate names here: egysignmaps.github.io

My poster today at #LSA2026

sad to see this resource will disappear-- what other arabic corpora are out there? this was one of the only ones I knew of for Egyptian

My poster today for signcafe

Looking forward to #SIGNCAFE in Warsaw this week!

Because we’re moving between different regions every 2-3 days fieldwork is really exhausting this time but we’re doing so many interviews and learning so much about regional lexical variation

For @jmhenner.bsky.social. We — @savithry.bsky.social and I — wrote “How to crip your sign language linguistic theory”. Open access. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

A research by Najla Alghamdi (2022) suggests that "we are witnessing an emergence of a dialect that can be called a Saudi Koine. One of the characteristics of this koine is that it features a double-sided pole, a Najdi pole and a Hijazi pole.

Advertising my language tutoring services: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/p/sign-up-fo...

new nubian lesson: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQw... just found this series from 2011-2012 about Deaf culture in France recently uploaded- with French subtitles and signover in LSF

new Nubian lesson: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/02/nobi...

Linguistic examples should not just be translated but also be glossed. What makes a good gloss? In the ELSEA project we created a 10min knowledge clip explaining interlinear glossing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATS...

Absolutely. People also differ in power and privilege so how languages mix also reflects this. It’s important to understand sometimes the push for linguistic ‘purity’ reflects these unequal language dynamics: this is how I contextualise anti-English sentiments in the BSL and Auslan communities.

Nubian lesson 5: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/02/nobi...

the android version is now available: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

New app available for elder fuþark: apps.apple.com/us/app/learn...

Nobiin lesson 4: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/01/nobi...

#Linguistics folks, do you know of any research on whether interlinear glossing helps learners acquire morphology? especially for language revitalization contexts?

أعتقد أن كل من يهتم باللغة النوبية وتعلمها لازم يعرف عن محمد متولي بدر وأعماله

New nubian lesson available: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/01/nobi...

Excited to virtually share my poster with everyone at #TISLR15

Very much enjoyed presenting my poster at #TISLR15 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today! One important message in our poster is that factors like methodology, researcher's background, and language documentation may affect one's result. Happy to share/discuss more via DM or Email!

#TISLR15 Anyone know how virtual participants are meant to participate in the poster sessions?

New app for Demotic Egyptian now available for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... iOS version coming soon

‎TIL classical arabic actually does distinguish between medial and distal demonstratives ذاك وذلك ‎I always just thought ذاك was a variant of ذلك

It's been a long time but I finally got back to the Nobiin lessons-- lesson 2 is now available here: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/01/nobi...

“Deaf equality and human rights: Sign language documentation and the power of deaf-led research.” Lecture by Dr. Nick Palfreyman for the LAGB* Nov 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVYD... * www.lagb.org.uk #linguistics #sign #signlanguage

new blogpost: northafricanlinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/12/taga...

I have updated it, but I would welcome additional suggestions for this page: post comments below or send me a DM! sites.google.com/view/adamcsc...

Kenya was front and center thanks to Margaret Odhiambo (now at Univ of Hamburg). Her presentation shared the Effects on Deaf Students of Glossing Kenyan Sign Language in Written English. I loved how she asked for input from the audience to generate ideas to improve education of deaf Kenyans.

Lina Hou’s keynote, MIND-PING: Grammars and Epistemologies, challenges us to rethink multilanguage, knowledge, and Eurocentric Deaf epistemologies 🙌🏽 #Sign10 @linasigns.bsky.social

Repost of my old "Types of Sign Language Paper". #Linguistics #SignLanguages

excited to share the first version of my new app for learning sign language annotation and writing systems here at #SIGN10 in Trinidad today web: signlanguagetranscription.github.io iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/sign-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

If you're at #SIGN10, come say hi! I'll be presenting a poster on how different sign languages represent numbers tomorrow afternoon in poster room 3.