Sāmapriyavasuḣ
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Interested in descriptive & historical linguistics. Like Caucasian & Indo-Iranic languages, & dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas & along the Nile. Georgian calligrapher & fish-cook henceforth.
Putting this long footnote (left is context, right is footnote) in our computational hist. ling. paper. I feel computational linguists haven’t been explicit enough on this fact, and this adds to a lot of stupid Twitter-bickering over reliability of methodlogies.
Made the Lithuanian radioactively pink soup (šàltibarščiai). It was fine, but way too thick for me to call it a soup. More of a dip consistency. The ideal meal is this with Kashmiri salt-tea followed by a piece of some generic strawberry cake.
Istanbul’s Ossetian heart! Fıccın (фыдджын ‘meat-pie’) Restoran.
Ah yes, to know an Abkhaz word, all I got to do is know the Ossetian for it, look it up in the Ossetian-Georgian dictionary, and then further translate in the Georgian-Abkhaz dict.
Y’all are not ready for this new Georgian fish-cook phase of my life that’s about to begin thanks to this book I was gifted yesterday for beautiful Mχedruli handwriting. 🎣
The mountain of tongues, ladies and gentlemen. Looming behind Batumi in all its visibly “casino town” glory.
Someone fucking vandalized this seat at the Constantinople airport yesterday, and didn’t even bother to curse their neighboring village with a drought or no sons for it to be useful to epigraphists in 600 years. What a waste. 🤬
Rediscovered this thing I bought about 7 years ago in the Navajo nation.
This is dessert in Indian cooking, by the way. :) One of my favorite kinds. We in the east prefer this milky version. North Indians have a drier variant.
Yes, it is regular in southwestern and western Iran. Kurdish and the Persid languages (including Persian and Achomi) have it. If you want a little more detail, I have a slide for the occasion from a talk I gave two years ago.
/θ/ (now merged into /tʰ/) persisted in Söl'ring (Sylt Frisian) till the early 1800s. One of the words we have recorded with the fricative appears to be ‘methinks’. :)
The word for ‘shit’ is surprisingly resilient in the central Himālayan Sino-Tibetan languages. (I have only minimally checked in ST languages of Tibet, Burma or NE India; my comparative focus on Nepal and adjacent parts of India & Tibet.)
They are saying anusvāra. Such a treat trying to use a dictionary in a language you have no clue about.
Wait a minute, why are 19th c. mainland Danes eating with their fingers?
The etymology of the canid _dhole_ is unknown. The spelling has an “Indian” feel to it, and the Indian subcontinent is where it was first described to science from. But that name is not in Indo-Aryan languages. I think it may be the #Newar for ‘jackal’: Kathmandu /dʱwʌ̃ː/ (/dʱwʌ̃lʌ-/) Dolakha /d̺̠õɾ/
Linguists: We need more reliable Wörter und Sachen reconstruction for Proto-Semitic. Gilgit Shina: They’re the same thing.
Completely inexplicable how Facebook came to the conclusion that I am much of a Uralic languages guy???
Burushaski has a couple of possibly very old Wakhi loans, from before Wakhi-specific sound-changes. The now-disappearing word for ‘brick’ is among them.
Last week, @lordmondegreen.bsky.social & I presented presented joint work with Burusho friends @charismawafi.bsky.social et al. (not on BlueSky) on historical reconstruction of #Burushaski in G(h)ent at the Isolated Languages Workshop. :)
@maartenkossmann.bsky.social are what they call cognates truly cognates? The first one is probably good, but for ‘mistake’, the cited Tashlhiyt word is clearly from Arabic, while the corresponding Tarifit doesn’t look so (at least not the same source).