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Sorry I haven’t been tweeting a lot of language related stuff lately, so here’s some discourse analysis courtesy of the New York Times #SaveSheikhJarrah 1/ The function of the article
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One of the first things I learned when I started taking linguistics courses was that linguists are uniquely qualified to document and preserve the languages of marginalized and threatened communities,
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Akkadian has a verb nâkum 'to have sex with,' which is cognate to Arabic ناك nāk- 'to fuck.' I can't find any cognates in Aramaic, Ge'ez, or Hebrew, so potentially
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Brief note on a synchronic paradox in Levantine Arabic phonology: word-final long vowels are pronounced short unless there is a suffix in which case they're realized as long: /ramaː/ >
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In Syriac, mar (ܡܵܪ mār) doesn't mean "God," it means "lord." There's a related form ܡܵܪܝܵܐ māryā that means "Lord God." The Syriac word for "love" referenced here is actually
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