The IPA could really use a better symbol than ⟨r̝⟩. Just give us r with palatal hook already.

I’ve long thought this to be one of the most beautiful passages found in a dissertation’s acknowledgements. From Mark James Henry’s 2013 PhD thesis, The Syntax of Reduced Nominals in Akkadian.

So Gilgamus is ʿAmmugabbār

ahh yes, new england (medieval crimea)

Really weird Greek script on these Parthian coins. Looks almost like monumental Bactrian to me.

look at my praefect dawg i’m cooked

Mariupol Greek is easily my favorite modern dialect

reminder to myself to read this

i know mexican and chinese guys who both look exactly like this

Akkadians be like “south”

Is it just me or does the Graeco-Babyloniaca look extremely Palmyrene

The name is definitely qrtḥdšt and not krkḥdš tho right?

Middle English were getting kinda Egyptian with it

how it feels to read demotic

they’ve got some punic looking words for sure

>open up pre-Columbian codex >first page is a giant Cross pattée with a Cross of Burgundy inside

old japanese be like “woman”

love this script

just got nasal ʿayin jumpscared by a 17th century dictionary of Vietnamese

Anyone know what’s up with with the aleph in Phoenician pʾl ‘(Egyptian) beans’ in KAI 51 Vs. 4? No parallel in the Semitic cognates (Heb. פּוֹל, Aram. פּוֹלָא, Ar. فُول, Ge. ፉል, etc.), but it does look suspiciously like Bohairic ⲫⲉⲗ ‘bean’, which would go back to Proto-Coptic *pʰɛʔl.

I was having trouble reconciling the Tiberian form with Ugaritic a͗byn, but apparently *a > ɛ is regular in this position. Thanks Garr! (from “The Seghol and Segholation in Hebrew”)

was finally able to complete this etymology tree