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Jair Albarracín
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lecturer in linguistics | global south |
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Gustavo Petro zegt het klip en klaar.

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September 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I just wrote a letter: Friends don’t let friends fund apartheid: Stop JNF Canada’s attempt to evade CRA revocation. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/frie...
Friends don’t let friends fund apartheid: Stop JNF Canada’s attempt to evade CRA revocation
Vous recherchez la version française ? Vous la trouverez ici. In August 2024, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) formally revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF Canada)...
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September 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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PSA to students of Maltese-Romance syntactic contact:

qalhom ("he said them") != qallhom ("he said to them")
August 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Diglossia as Ideology" by Kristen Brustad. In: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World 🧶
July 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The same practice of genocide has been occurring in Gaza, the authors are the same: US, UK and Israel.
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence

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The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence
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July 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Egypto-Semitic comparison: Some considerations on bilabials and dentals relationship" by Massimiliano Franci
July 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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On the etymology of Portuguese "Saudade": an instance of multiple causation? By Leo Pap
June 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Decolonizing Linguistics. Edited by Anne Hudley, Christine Mallinson & Mary Bucholtz
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197755259.001.0001
July 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Interesting to know the word paradise/ paraiso comes from Old Persian.
paribāra > Heb. parbār ‘forecourt’, paradayadām > Heb. pardēs ‘garden’, fratama > Heb. partĕmîm ‘nobles’, patibāga > pat-bag ‘dainties’, patigāma > Heb. pitgām ‘decree’, patičagnya > Heb. patšegen ‘copy’, tršāta > Heb. tiršātāʾ ‘governor’.
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Iranian words in the hebrew bible: ḫšaçapāvan > Hebrew ʾăḥašdarpān ‘satrap’, apadāna > Heb ʾappeden 'palace', ganzabarab > Heb. gizbār ‘treasurer’, ganzaka > Heb. ganzak ‘treasury’, dāta > Heb. dāt ‘law’, nidāna > Heb. nādān ‘sheath’, ništāvan > Heb. ništĕwān ‘letter’,...
July 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"On the Original Home of the Semites" by Jehoshua Grintz
www.jstor.org/stable/543582
On the Original Home of the Semites on JSTOR
Jehoshua M. Grintz, On the Original Home of the Semites, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul., 1962), pp. 186-206
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June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Jehoshua Grintz wrote this:
June 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Arabic is the most beautiful language ever.
June 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Soubhiyé - in Lebanese Arabic ... soubhiyé refers to that period of time in the morning when no one else is awake but you
May 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The most plausible hypothesis about the genetic affiliation of the Elamite language:
June 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
For those interested there's an Elamite Dictionary online ⬇

ids.clld.org/contribution...
IDS - Elamite
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June 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing" by François Desset et al.
June 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The 2 trilingual Achaemenid cuneiform inscriptions of Ganjnameh in Iran, written in Old Persian, Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Elamite. The one on the left was created on the order of King Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (r. 486–465 BC)
June 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
All you need to know about Persian language

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All You Need to Know about Persian Language
Find all you need to know about Persian language (Farsi, Dari, Tajiki)
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June 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"The Iranian and Azari languages" by Vahid Rashidvash
June 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Metanoia by Baris Pekcagliyan
June 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE: an investigation into pattern replication and societal multilingualism" by Robin Meyer

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Serval - Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE: an investigation into pattern replication and societal multilingualism
This study provides new insights into the historical language contact between Classical Armenian and West Middle Iranian, specifically Parthian. Next to an up-to-date account of known lexical, morphol...
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June 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM