#Dialects

多多底料 D.U.O

To think that in 2014 when Fatshady first participated to CCTV talent show 《中国好歌曲》, the judges, the audience were all very enthusiastic about his sichuanese dialect performance. He was the

Shafeeq Gigyani (𐨭𐨥𐨅 𐨒𐨁𐨒𐨩𐨣𐨁)

LEARN PASHTO IN SEVEN TWEETSPashto has 44 alphabets, taken from Arabic, and some are invented by Pir Rokhan.ا ب پ ت ټ ث ج چ ح خ څ ځ د

Chenchen Zhang🤦🏻‍♀️

I think "she" is a better approximate sound than "see", if we go with the Putonghua phonologyhowever, "see" might be more legitimate if we consider the jiantuan distinction in historical

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇨🇬

Did you know: The Shona, or at least the ancestors of the people called Shona today, especially the Zezuru, only arrived in Zimbabwe in the late 1600s to 1700s as

Since my feed is discussing this again, a short thread on why Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are both the same and not the same language: 1. In the most

samson 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 🇹🇹

okay so this person went on private but i'm able to still get a screenshot of the tweet, probably bc i'm on cache or somethingBut as a black caribbean american

AAVE is not = Gen Z. AAVE is a cluster of dialects in which there are generational differences, especially in vocabulary, just as there are within any dialect of a

Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜

One of the things I write about in Dialect and Nationalism in China is how designating particular local languages as "dialects" has much more to do with the construction and

I think part of the reason so many people don't like SQL is that there's like 5 keywords in SQL that work everywhere and anything complicated or interesting is in

Thoughts on #NEP2020Most of our mother tongues have dialects which give away our roots: our caste.English doesn't—it acts as a leveller of sorts, which is why the powers that be

words and phrases from AAVE have been making their way into general american english for generations. i totally get having pride in your dialect and wanting it people to respect

Nitajirudia: Swahili was NOT born out of contact between the meeting of Arabs and Africans it existed before under different names. Those who of us speak some of the early

Do you know how people counted in Swahili before Arabic numbers were introduced into the language? (Thread) Before the introduction of Arabic words, numbers like six, seven and nine had

Ok like I realised this when I was learning Arabic tooo!! But tbh this is like every language I learned. EXCEPT Japanese. I was like oh whew...you can understand me...the

Manchester Voices

Welcome to #LiveHive! I (@Holly_Rebekah) am here for the next hour to tell you a bit about what we’ve been up to for the last month at #ManchesterVoices #McrVoices! We’ve

Earlier today, my buddy Eman and I had a super fun conversation about foreign-origin words we use in our Arabic dialects (Egyptian for her, Sudanese for me) and why maybe