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Günter

@Akjarati

Male Gujarati South African Muslim | Amateur Linguistics and Islamic Studies | Follow/Interaction ≠ Endorsement

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Joined August 2025
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🧵 | The letter 'ض ẓ̂ ḍ' lin Soqotri and it's relation to the historical phonology of Arabic and the recitation of the Qur'an (This map is extremely outdated)
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To the hospital sounds more natural to me but to hospital isnt exactly wrong to me
Śaśāṅkaḥ | 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 🦜 (@cesauncus) profile pictureŚaśāṅkaḥ | 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 🦜@cesauncusNov 4
Which #English sentence below sounds okay to you?
89%He went to the hospital.
11%He went to hospital.
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Technically له/لها (lahu/laha) means “to him/her”. The 3rd person plural is the same in all cases: هم (hum) is masculine while هن (hunn) is feminine
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Why is it that people cant put in the effort to learn something new Its always everyone mist conform to my people, my scripts my language, everyone else must put in the effort to make my life easier
AgentSaffron (@AgentSaffron) profile pictureAgentSaffron
@AgentSaffronNov 2
let us all start writing our respective Indian languages in English script ... why have 200 scripts in India
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South African is way too broad
woke alice weidel 🏳️‍🌈🌸 (@DirteeerMartini) profile picturewoke alice weidel 🏳️‍🌈🌸@DirteeerMartiniNov 4
Replying to @BlueGreenblue3
kiki: aussie, nz, south african, boston, scouse bouba: ssb, geordie, cockney, estuary, southern american
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I got the best of both worlds (Africa and South Asia?
☆ 🐛🐠benjamin netanyancat⛓️🍭👁️👁️ (@BlueGreenblue3) profile picture☆ 🐛🐠benjamin netanyancat⛓️🍭👁️👁️@BlueGreenblue3Nov 2
I love how linguistics enthusiasts i meet on the Internet tend to disproportionately come from places with languages that are very cool to study like Georgia or India
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Anyone know why anytime I try to search on the OCIANA website I get this? I dont get any prompt for a captcha or anything and theres no Login so I'm confused
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Vefa T.@32nd_guessingNov 1
>Language family called "Hanoish" >Spoken in Laos but not in Hanoi >Name etymologically unrelated to Hanoi
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People are only scared of Arabic grammar because its non concatenative and foreign, real ones know the scariest here is Hittite
Dr. Valerie (@drvalerieisin) profile pictureDr. Valerie
@drvalerieisinOct 31
Which language has the scariest grammar? 👻
24%Classical Arabic
22%Georgian
33%Classical Greek
22%Hittite
55 votes • Final results
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Larry Hyman illustrates why tonology is *awesome* in under four minutes
Darin Flynn (@phono_logical) profile pictureDarin Flynn
@phono_logical4 May 2025
“Prosodic domains in the noun phrase in Bantu” by Larry Hyman (Mar. ’25) youtube.com/watch?v=_cHvxkuO…
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My Gujarati dialect with fronted retroflexes 💪💪💪💪 (and also loss of phonemic distinctions between them)
*sqómn̩prios ↦ *sħā́maprias ↦ хомӕлфӕ? (@avzaagzonunaada) profile picture*sqómn̩prios ↦ *sħā́maprias ↦ хомӕлфӕ?@avzaagzonunaadaNov 1
My *impression* of how “retroflexes” are typically articulated in different parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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OCIANA (@OCIANA_OSU) profile picture
OCIANA@OCIANA_OSUNov 1
𝑱𝙪𝒔𝙩 𝙥𝒖𝙗𝒍𝙞𝒔𝙝𝒆𝙙! The 1st of 6 volumes: 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑎 Open Access at this link: tinyurl.com/5n7ht4nj. Nearly 2000 words, with citations and etymological commentary. More soon!
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tēḷ - Proto-Dravidian for "scorpion", an animal noted for its 𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍... 🦂
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South African Eids are all extremely boring and even when I was a kid ee need to rectify this too
Delman (@dmontetheno1) profile pictureDelman@dmontetheno1Oct 31
The real convo we should be having is how do we make Eid as fun as Halloween for kids
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Ive used the little amount of Dutch ik (from my Afrikaans) more with North Africans from the Netherlands fhan actual Dutch people who all speak English to me
Victoria 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (@Hanasaku_Yuri) profile pictureVictoria 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@Hanasaku_YuriOct 31
are you a monolingual anglophone who wants to learn a foreign language but thinks it's hard? do you not care about "versatility?" do you want to speak with people from about 1.75 countries who all speak english anyways? learn dutch. you will certainly not regret learning dutch
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Mostly made-up. Māhārāṣṭrī wouldn’t have covered all of what is modern Mahārāṭra, let alone that part to the east. We don’t even know what “Pai̯śāćī” is. The Himālayas wouldn’t be speaking any Indo-Aryan, much of Orissa was likely also Muṇḍā and Dravidian speaking. Bangla- >
Yadu (@Yaduvam) profile pictureYadu
@YaduvamOct 31
Languages of the Indian Subcontinent in 100 CE.
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Hasan@HasanMS_10016Oct 31
#Causative formation in #IndoAryan #Languages make s.o. do s.t. Hindi-Urdu: likhna 'to write'; likvāna 'make s.o. write.'
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>Group of languages named Apabhramsa (corrupted) >Corrupted forms of Sanskrit (perfected)
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꩜@AboubarchosOct 29
It's funny that people read Surah al-Kahf and come out of it with an epistemic anxiety of the identity of Dhul-Qarnayn, when the entire overarching message of the Surah, which each story in it emphasises, is to be humble in the face of ilm al-ghayb
The Orthodox Muslim Updates (@LibyanoUpdates) profile pictureThe Orthodox Muslim Updates
@LibyanoUpdatesOct 29
The Orthodox Muslim reacts to Muslim Lantern saying Who cares to know who Dhul-Qarnayn is😭😭
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Hasan@HasanMS_10016Oct 29
Khetrāṇi (کھیتراݨی) is spoken in Balochistan and neighboring areas. Some of the features shared with Sindhi are j- genitive and ã first person pronoun (au in Sindhi).
گواھرام بلوچ (@Gwahram99) profile pictureگواھرام بلوچ@Gwahram99Oct 29
Khetran tribal figure Abdul Kareem Khetran addresses his tribe in Khetrani, a fascinating language spoken in Barkhan, Balochistan, blending Sindhi and Saraiki features. He emphatically declares: “We are a Baloch race.”
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Ruined my day because I remembered the 9th volume of كتاب الإكليل is lost to time
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