Imar Koutchoukali
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Imar Koutchoukali
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Science advisor @mfaestonia (all views my own)| PhD @UniTartu | Tweets about late antique South Arabia, linguistics, and politics
Yes, although if I remember correctly comparative ʕan also occurs in Quranic Arabic (ʔinni ʔaḥabtu ḥubba l-ḫayri ʕan ḏikri rabbi, "I preferred the love of niceties over the memory of my Lord"), and not infrequently in Arabic dialects (including Omani Arabic).
September 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Best wel veel, maar het is dus vrij slecht beschreven!

Ik wil hier overigens nog een Serieus Artikel van maken dus misschien dat ik in dat geval iets meer de diepte in kan gaan over wat er in het Zanzibar Arabisch gebeurt:)
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Elementary education in Timbuktu, as in all its peers, began with writing, grammar, and memorizing the Quran and some devotional poetry, advancing to arabic grammar; classical poetry; studies on the life of the Prophet, and studies on theology
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-t...
What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
pourquoi pas les deux?
February 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reconstruct abialization and assume the loss of the /k/?
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I grew up around American Republicans and have been struggling to find another term for the current Republican party, which has a very different platform. I've been using either "nationalist" or "orange". I suppose most people just say "MAGA".
But "Orangist" may exceed them all in hilarity
January 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
delete your account
December 24, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I think it's fair to assume that Sabaic s² was very likely pronounced as a lateral. A nice clue is that in Qatabanic and Hadrimitic we find ks²d for Chaldea.
November 15, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Intuitively I'd say it'd be more common cross-linguistically to have at least one hissed sibilant (i.e., s¹ = /s/; s² = [ɬ]; s³ = [ts]) which also solves the problem of the merger of s¹ and s³ in Late Sabaic (although an early Arabic substratum there can not be discounted, complicating things).
November 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM