#Dialects

claire

Ioonadiet

questions for non canadians - a thread canadians can answer too but shhh dont cheat what are our two nationally recognized languages? who are they canada is divided into 13....hint

A$AP Pocky

lifeafternet

do i have the patience to unpack all of this? not before my meds kick inhttps://twitter.com/glassemusic/status/1280697172770451456 it's not "our cultures" when sinofuturism is an aesthetic indentured by western imagination, on

duru

durulangs

facts about the turkish language : a thread 1- in 1928, thanks to atatürk's (founder of turkey) reforms, the ottoman turkish alphabet was replaced with latin alphabet. literacy rate

جلنار

jul_nar_

𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖓 stans sit on this app all day talking about Korea this, China that, the Middle East this, Arabs that, Asia this, Africa that, making all kinds of generalizing statements

Mean Fat Girl- 🏳️‍🌈💄

Artists_Ali

People who do not have American Southern English as one of your native dialects...I have unfortunate news.Y'all have been misledI know you all think that "bless your heart" translates as

acab|blm|☪️|🏳️‍🌈|⚧ امنه خان

jaythenerdkid

okay I gotta mute the lieutenant poll or I'm gonna be yelling about loanwords all day with every bit of angst in my shrivelled english teacher's heart but just so

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇨🇬

MimiReeds

VatsongaVatsonga are a Bantu ethnic group native mainly to Southern Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga). They speak Xitsonga, a Southern Bantu language. A very small number of Tsonga

Dr Crom

DocCrom

Ancient Artefact of the Day: A Bronze Mouse - with snack for nibbling; Roman, ca. 1st Century AD.Traditionally, such statuettes have been associated with the cult of the god Apollo

Mike Gerdts

OMGerdts

How have I not seen this before? It so needs to be live tweeted.https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985 Why all the excitement about UNIX? And will UNIX become the next MS-DOS? Shortly after showing

dw

jeegaram1996

A lot of people don't realize that Black English (BE) actually shares a lot of similar grammatical structures to "prestigious" languages. So, here's my 87590th thread on AAVE (African American Vernacular

David Paulk 波大卫

davidpaulk

THREAD about how Douyin, the Chinese version of #TikTok, is banning livestreamers for speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin. 1/ On Monday, the Guangzhou-based WeChat account Yangcheng Net (羊城网) posted an

Folk Horror Magpie

folkhorrormagpi

As the nights draw in I find myself turning more to folk stories from the Slavic pantheon. The ones with cautionary tales for children to remind them to stick to

◡̈sarah.⁷

victonatz

questions for non arab (more likely non lebanese as the thread goes on) oomfs!dont let me flop ok,,, how many arab countries are there? how many dialects/accents is there for

Dr Hyelander 🇦🇲 🌋

Helioprogenus

Ւ's tumble toward obscurity, a sad fate for such a fine letter.Ւ (hyun) is the 34th letter of the Armenian alphabet. Its independent role has essentially disappeared from the reformed

Melissa Hillman

bittergertrude

Here's what they get wrong abt @AOC :I've been teaching for 30 yrs. Most of that was university teaching. There is no more focused, prepared, poised, or hardworking student than

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

I don't want to give this racist the time of day, but I will use this opportunity to say a couple of things. People's regional dialects often get "stronger" when