Celtibeŕ
@celtiber.bsky.social
Mapping Idubeda, an EU demographic desert. Trained in Europe & East Asia on architecture, urbanism & land planning. Since ‘99 genealogy & linguistics in my ancestors’ melting pot valley.
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Egyptian Arabic idiom of the day:
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Egyptian Arabic idiom of the day:
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
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Cartuja de Valldecrist
Altura, Castellón
Altura, Castellón
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Cartuja de Valldecrist
Altura, Castellón
Altura, Castellón
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Sutton Heritage Mosaic,
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
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#MosaicMonday
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Sutton Heritage Mosaic,
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
Sutton, #London
A wall mosaic of 1994, by mosaic artists Rob Turner and Gary Drostle. Hand cut and laid by hand by the two artists.
It shows scenes from #localhistory, such as, in the centre, the #Tudor Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII.
See ALT text for key.
#MosaicMonday
On this #MosaicMonday, the rays of green and gold Venetian glass that were being inlaid in 2005 in the vaults of the Sagrada Família of Barcelona – now hovering 40 metres over the visitors to the basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí.
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
On this #MosaicMonday, the rays of green and gold Venetian glass that were being inlaid in 2005 in the vaults of the Sagrada Família of Barcelona – now hovering 40 metres over the visitors to the basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí.
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Each of these dots on the map has its own history, and I intend to cover all of them
Cities/towns may have been the first complex societies, long before kingdoms and empires.
Any discussion of African history would be incomplete without them
Cities/towns may have been the first complex societies, long before kingdoms and empires.
Any discussion of African history would be incomplete without them
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Each of these dots on the map has its own history, and I intend to cover all of them
Cities/towns may have been the first complex societies, long before kingdoms and empires.
Any discussion of African history would be incomplete without them
Cities/towns may have been the first complex societies, long before kingdoms and empires.
Any discussion of African history would be incomplete without them
This makes me feel old: I remember visiting the installation of those mosaics – up there in the vaults – some 20 years ago.
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This makes me feel old: I remember visiting the installation of those mosaics – up there in the vaults – some 20 years ago.
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Medieval cities and towns in the northern horn of Africa.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/medieval-c...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/medieval-c...
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Medieval cities and towns in the northern horn of Africa.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/medieval-c...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/medieval-c...
Am I depressed? I’m sleeping *a lot* lately.
[This skeet was sponsored by My Alexithymia]
[This skeet was sponsored by My Alexithymia]
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Am I depressed? I’m sleeping *a lot* lately.
[This skeet was sponsored by My Alexithymia]
[This skeet was sponsored by My Alexithymia]
Not a mutual, but enough is enough. My brain has already decided that that last “Provençal” was a synonym of Occitan and now I’m back to square one in my recovery MFs.
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Not a mutual, but enough is enough. My brain has already decided that that last “Provençal” was a synonym of Occitan and now I’m back to square one in my recovery MFs.
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16) the best historical pronunciation of Hebrew is the Provençal one, for the sheer audacity of its consonant shifts.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
![The very unusual pronunciation tradition of Hebrew can be seen in these examples: the characteristic pronunciation of Hebrew ṯ, s, ś, ṣ, and word-final ṭ and ḏ as [f], z as [v], and š as [s], word-final r as [χ], and syllable-final /n/ and /m/ as [ŋ].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fujsnmqkn7n4pcmd5ybt7jld/bafkreihdjlyzfdte2j3caycwnw7vpnlzajr236hjpenbtm5dec7ttceaga@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
16) the best historical pronunciation of Hebrew is the Provençal one, for the sheer audacity of its consonant shifts.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
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Humanities people should do this kind of fun stuff on social media. Word Cup or Archival Document Cup. Overwrought Theoretical Intervention Cup. Do the kids still say intervention?
#OreCup R2M1: Are you supporting tendrils of native #Copper or dark grains of #Ilmenite?
vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Vote in Semifinals Match 1 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
Vote in Copper vs Ilmenite Credit: Carles Millan and Modris Baum
www.mineralcup.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Humanities people should do this kind of fun stuff on social media. Word Cup or Archival Document Cup. Overwrought Theoretical Intervention Cup. Do the kids still say intervention?
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NEW: Buried for 90 years, a cache of Yazidi photographs has become a bridge between the Iraqi community’s past and today, writes William Gourlay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-f...
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-f...
The Forgotten Photographs of Iraq’s Yazidis
Images of everyday life captured by archaeologists in the 1930s have been rediscovered, reshaping how a persecuted community remembers itself
newlinesmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
NEW: Buried for 90 years, a cache of Yazidi photographs has become a bridge between the Iraqi community’s past and today, writes William Gourlay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-f...
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-f...
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Lingule
A fun little language game
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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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“Believe me, I wish I could turn it off,” Livingstone insisted. “Do you think I want to remember my ex-plumber’s birthday every year because he mentioned it the one time he fixed my toilet? Now he thinks I’m in love with him.”
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Believe me, I wish I could turn it off,” Livingstone insisted. “Do you think I want to remember my ex-plumber’s birthday every year because he mentioned it the one time he fixed my toilet? Now he thinks I’m in love with him.”
Should I eat this cold piece of homemade ‘coqueta’ [ɢʊɢeːtːɑː] – from yesterday’s dinner – for breakfast?
Yes, or “Oui, espèce de cochon”?
Yes, or “Oui, espèce de cochon”?
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Should I eat this cold piece of homemade ‘coqueta’ [ɢʊɢeːtːɑː] – from yesterday’s dinner – for breakfast?
Yes, or “Oui, espèce de cochon”?
Yes, or “Oui, espèce de cochon”?
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For that first verb, cf. Al-Idrīsī describing Gafsa:
wa-ahluhā mutabarbirūna wa-aktharuhum yatakallamu bi-l-lughati l-laṭīniyy il-ifrīqiyy
"And its people are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin language"
lughat.blogspot.com/2007/07/berb...
wa-ahluhā mutabarbirūna wa-aktharuhum yatakallamu bi-l-lughati l-laṭīniyy il-ifrīqiyy
"And its people are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin language"
lughat.blogspot.com/2007/07/berb...
Latin-speaking Muslims in medieval Africa
In the Middle Ages as today, Christians and Jews regularly called God "Allah" when speaking Arabic, just as Muslims did . It is perhaps no...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
For that first verb, cf. Al-Idrīsī describing Gafsa:
wa-ahluhā mutabarbirūna wa-aktharuhum yatakallamu bi-l-lughati l-laṭīniyy il-ifrīqiyy
"And its people are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin language"
lughat.blogspot.com/2007/07/berb...
wa-ahluhā mutabarbirūna wa-aktharuhum yatakallamu bi-l-lughati l-laṭīniyy il-ifrīqiyy
"And its people are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin language"
lughat.blogspot.com/2007/07/berb...
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Work in the California Language Archive to support language reclamation:
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
23 boxes and a suitcase full of tapes: How a linguist's lifelong work is shaping Indigenous language today - Berkeley News
Collections at UC Berkeley's California Language Archive help keep Indigenous languages alive. This is the story of one of them.
news.berkeley.edu
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Work in the California Language Archive to support language reclamation:
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/06/2...
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TIL that Swedish ‘tung’ (‘heavy’), source of the ‘tung-’ in ‘tungsten’ is cognate with the root of Polish ciężki (‘heavy’)
Very neat parallel to English tongue being cognate to Polish język.
Very neat parallel to English tongue being cognate to Polish język.
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
TIL that Swedish ‘tung’ (‘heavy’), source of the ‘tung-’ in ‘tungsten’ is cognate with the root of Polish ciężki (‘heavy’)
Very neat parallel to English tongue being cognate to Polish język.
Very neat parallel to English tongue being cognate to Polish język.
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A short thread on onomastics in Numidian inscriptions (eastern script).
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A short thread on onomastics in Numidian inscriptions (eastern script).
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
Indexes of names in eastern Numidian inscriptions (Chabot 1940, Rebuffat 2018) provide us with an almost ridiculous number of different names. I wondered if this is correct, or if this is due to the messiness of the corpus.
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Quatre grans llotges de l'antiga Corona d'Aragó:
1. Barcelona (segle XIV)
2. Palma (segle xv)
3. València (segle XV)
4. Saragossa (segle XVI)
Les meves preferides són les de Palma i València, aquesta darrera amb diferència.
1. Barcelona (segle XIV)
2. Palma (segle xv)
3. València (segle XV)
4. Saragossa (segle XVI)
Les meves preferides són les de Palma i València, aquesta darrera amb diferència.
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Quatre grans llotges de l'antiga Corona d'Aragó:
1. Barcelona (segle XIV)
2. Palma (segle xv)
3. València (segle XV)
4. Saragossa (segle XVI)
Les meves preferides són les de Palma i València, aquesta darrera amb diferència.
1. Barcelona (segle XIV)
2. Palma (segle xv)
3. València (segle XV)
4. Saragossa (segle XVI)
Les meves preferides són les de Palma i València, aquesta darrera amb diferència.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
TIL that – according to Wikipedia – “La cucaracha” was born as an Islamophobic and antisemitic (probably) Andalusian song, talking about building a bridge with the ribs of North Africans, and brooms out of either their sideburns or the beards of Jews.
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
TIL that – according to Wikipedia – “La cucaracha” was born as an Islamophobic and antisemitic (probably) Andalusian song, talking about building a bridge with the ribs of North Africans, and brooms out of either their sideburns or the beards of Jews.
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In Gulf dialect classes I learned to say ولهان عليك for "I missed you", between friends. ("Long time no see!" or Gulf English, people say, "long time!")
Lane says that وله means "he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief". 😧
Lane says that وله means "he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief". 😧
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In Gulf dialect classes I learned to say ولهان عليك for "I missed you", between friends. ("Long time no see!" or Gulf English, people say, "long time!")
Lane says that وله means "he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief". 😧
Lane says that وله means "he became bereft of his reason or intellect, in consequence of grief". 😧
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The i in "handiwork" is a remnant of the OE ġe- prefix, usually indicating completion: handġeweorc [ˈhɑnd.jeˌwe͜orˠk]. This prefix is of course cognate with the ge- used in regular German past participles.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The i in "handiwork" is a remnant of the OE ġe- prefix, usually indicating completion: handġeweorc [ˈhɑnd.jeˌwe͜orˠk]. This prefix is of course cognate with the ge- used in regular German past participles.
In case you’re wondering: no, a higher number of locations didn’t correspond to areas with isolated valleys, inaccessible areas, etc… or only to a small degree – most mountain ranges had an even lower survey density than flatlands.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In case you’re wondering: no, a higher number of locations didn’t correspond to areas with isolated valleys, inaccessible areas, etc… or only to a small degree – most mountain ranges had an even lower survey density than flatlands.