Jair Albarracín
@lbrzn.bsky.social
lecturer in linguistics | global south |
Here is an example of this, Johnstone in linguistic extraction action for the colonial entity. I did the same in my fieldwork,....
July 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here is an example of this, Johnstone in linguistic extraction action for the colonial entity. I did the same in my fieldwork,....
Jehoshua Grintz wrote this:
June 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Jehoshua Grintz wrote this:
The most plausible hypothesis about the genetic affiliation of the Elamite language:
June 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The most plausible hypothesis about the genetic affiliation of the Elamite language:
Sites where LE inscriptions were found are marked with a black star.
June 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sites where LE inscriptions were found are marked with a black star.
The LE writing system consists of both alphabetic and syllabic (CV type only) signs (see Fig. 6). The decipherment of this alpha-syllabary could be achieved through correlations with spellings and linguistic data provided by contemporary and later cuneiform texts.
June 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The LE writing system consists of both alphabetic and syllabic (CV type only) signs (see Fig. 6). The decipherment of this alpha-syllabary could be achieved through correlations with spellings and linguistic data provided by contemporary and later cuneiform texts.
The decipherment of Linear Elamite (LE) was first based on the biscriptualism (Linear Elamite and cuneiform) and bilingualism (Elamite and Akkadian) of the text corpus of Puzur Sušinak.
June 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The decipherment of Linear Elamite (LE) was first based on the biscriptualism (Linear Elamite and cuneiform) and bilingualism (Elamite and Akkadian) of the text corpus of Puzur Sušinak.
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
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)
Metanoia by Baris Pekcagliyan
June 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Metanoia by Baris Pekcagliyan
During excavations in 1961 in Garni, the ancient summer residence of the Armenian Arshakids, an inscription in Aramaic script was found. The Aramaic inscription reads: [...] mlk rb zy ’rm[yn] brh zy wlgs mlk “[...] the Great King of Armenia, son of Vologases the King.”
May 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
During excavations in 1961 in Garni, the ancient summer residence of the Armenian Arshakids, an inscription in Aramaic script was found. The Aramaic inscription reads: [...] mlk rb zy ’rm[yn] brh zy wlgs mlk “[...] the Great King of Armenia, son of Vologases the King.”
The Aramaic inscription from Oc‘amc‘ire in Abkhazia: The inscription was drawn on the raw plinth, and consists of seven characters executed in a peculiar variant of Aramaic script:’ b g d h w z, that would imply the beginning of an alphabet (Fig. 3).
May 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The Aramaic inscription from Oc‘amc‘ire in Abkhazia: The inscription was drawn on the raw plinth, and consists of seven characters executed in a peculiar variant of Aramaic script:’ b g d h w z, that would imply the beginning of an alphabet (Fig. 3).
The vase has a quadrilingual inscription, in Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite cuneiforms, and in Egyptian hieroglyphs. All three inscriptions have the same meaning "Xerxes : The Great King". The Old Persian cuneiform reads:
𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 𐏐 𐏋 𐏐 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣
( Xšayāršā : XŠ : vazraka)
"Xerxes : The Great King."
𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 𐏐 𐏋 𐏐 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣
( Xšayāršā : XŠ : vazraka)
"Xerxes : The Great King."
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The vase has a quadrilingual inscription, in Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite cuneiforms, and in Egyptian hieroglyphs. All three inscriptions have the same meaning "Xerxes : The Great King". The Old Persian cuneiform reads:
𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 𐏐 𐏋 𐏐 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣
( Xšayāršā : XŠ : vazraka)
"Xerxes : The Great King."
𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 𐏐 𐏋 𐏐 𐎺𐏀𐎼𐎣
( Xšayāršā : XŠ : vazraka)
"Xerxes : The Great King."
The plate containing the longer Etruscan inscription has the size of 81 x 185 mm. The inscription is very clearly carved on sixteen rows and contains 36 words. The contents of the Etruscan lamina reflects the Punic text of plate B but it is not its faithful translation:
May 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The plate containing the longer Etruscan inscription has the size of 81 x 185 mm. The inscription is very clearly carved on sixteen rows and contains 36 words. The contents of the Etruscan lamina reflects the Punic text of plate B but it is not its faithful translation:
We (the authors) transliterated the Phoenician text both with Hebrew and Latin letters for greater ease of readability:
May 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We (the authors) transliterated the Phoenician text both with Hebrew and Latin letters for greater ease of readability:
"The bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan text of the golden plates of Pyrgi" by Paolo Agostini and Adolfo Zavaroni
May 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"The bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan text of the golden plates of Pyrgi" by Paolo Agostini and Adolfo Zavaroni
These diphthongs,/aw/ and /ay/, are always monophthongized in the Honaine dialect (spoken in Algeria by two tribes: Beni Abed and Beni Kallad) as/ū/ and/ī/ respectively. A salient feature of al-Issa dialect is the retention of historical diphthongs /aw/ and /ay/ in all contexts:
May 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
These diphthongs,/aw/ and /ay/, are always monophthongized in the Honaine dialect (spoken in Algeria by two tribes: Beni Abed and Beni Kallad) as/ū/ and/ī/ respectively. A salient feature of al-Issa dialect is the retention of historical diphthongs /aw/ and /ay/ in all contexts:
The voiceless velar stop ∗k undergoes a historical process of affrication into /č/. While such a process is conditioned in other Bedouin JA dialects, e.g., Bani Hasan and ᶜAbbādi Arabic, the affrication process is unconditioned in al-Issa Arabic, similar to some central dialects of Palestine.
May 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The voiceless velar stop ∗k undergoes a historical process of affrication into /č/. While such a process is conditioned in other Bedouin JA dialects, e.g., Bani Hasan and ᶜAbbādi Arabic, the affrication process is unconditioned in al-Issa Arabic, similar to some central dialects of Palestine.
Like many Bedouin and rural JA dialects, the emphatic interdental fricative ∗ḏ̣ and the emphatic dental plosive ∗ḍ have merged into /ḏ̣/ in all contexts.
May 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Like many Bedouin and rural JA dialects, the emphatic interdental fricative ∗ḏ̣ and the emphatic dental plosive ∗ḍ have merged into /ḏ̣/ in all contexts.
The realization of ∗q as /g/ is reported in all Bedouin JA dialects, e.g. Bani Ḥasan, Bani Ṣaxar, Wadi Ramm, as well as rural JA dialects (gāl dialects), e.g., the dialects of Ḥōrān, which include dialects spoken twelve km south of Damascus as far as Ajloun Governorate
May 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The realization of ∗q as /g/ is reported in all Bedouin JA dialects, e.g. Bani Ḥasan, Bani Ṣaxar, Wadi Ramm, as well as rural JA dialects (gāl dialects), e.g., the dialects of Ḥōrān, which include dialects spoken twelve km south of Damascus as far as Ajloun Governorate
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May 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My dear girlfriend gave me a gift, from Seattle to my collection ^-^
(D) The disharmonic distribution: negative correlation between V1 and V2. Negative correlation has been noticed in several old and modern Semitic varieties, where a low V1 precedes a high V2, and a high V1 precedes a low V2.
May 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
(D) The disharmonic distribution: negative correlation between V1 and V2. Negative correlation has been noticed in several old and modern Semitic varieties, where a low V1 precedes a high V2, and a high V1 precedes a low V2.
(C) The harmonic distribution: positive correlation between V1 and V2. Several modern varieties of Arabic demonstrate positive correlation between V1 and V2, yielding three harmonic patterns.
May 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
(C) The harmonic distribution: positive correlation between V1 and V2. Several modern varieties of Arabic demonstrate positive correlation between V1 and V2, yielding three harmonic patterns.
I see, in Phoenician you have a diachronic development of o > u > ū, see Fox (1996)
May 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I see, in Phoenician you have a diachronic development of o > u > ū, see Fox (1996)
The Canaanite shift ā > ō may turned to /u/ yes, most of the evidence is found in Amarna Canaanite:
May 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Canaanite shift ā > ō may turned to /u/ yes, most of the evidence is found in Amarna Canaanite:
Egyptian loanwords elsewhere in Northwest Semitic. The relevant Northwest Semitic languages of the second and first millennia BC are Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Moabite, Ammonite, and Edomite.
May 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Egyptian loanwords elsewhere in Northwest Semitic. The relevant Northwest Semitic languages of the second and first millennia BC are Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Moabite, Ammonite, and Edomite.