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Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments.
More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.
Let’s check it out!
(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.
Let’s check it out!
(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments.
More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.
Let’s check it out!
(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.
Let’s check it out!
(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
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There are a couple of place names in Taiwan that end in -kah (-chia), written as 甲: 6 kah (la̍k-kah 六甲), 52 kah (Gōo-tsa̍p-lī-kah 五十二甲), 1000 kah (Tshian-kah 千甲).
It's a unit for area and might be a Dutch loanword - likely from "akker" ("field") 😀😀
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It's a unit for area and might be a Dutch loanword - likely from "akker" ("field") 😀😀
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November 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM
There are a couple of place names in Taiwan that end in -kah (-chia), written as 甲: 6 kah (la̍k-kah 六甲), 52 kah (Gōo-tsa̍p-lī-kah 五十二甲), 1000 kah (Tshian-kah 千甲).
It's a unit for area and might be a Dutch loanword - likely from "akker" ("field") 😀😀
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It's a unit for area and might be a Dutch loanword - likely from "akker" ("field") 😀😀
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