Johan Schalin
@schaljoh.bsky.social
PhD, nordiska språk, phonology, etymologi, East Nordic, Finnic, lainasanatutkimus, dialektologi, diachronic linguistics, ortnamn/paikannimet, Northwest Semitic, Catalan.
Researcher affiliated with @utu.fi
#langsky
Researcher affiliated with @utu.fi
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Johan Schalin
@schaljoh.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Johan Schalin – Knowledge Commons
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As promised when I left Academia(dot)edu a while ago, I have now started to update my page at KCWorks and Humanities Commons.
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
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Confs: 13th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics
Confs: 13th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics
The ICNGL conference series (also known as NGL) provides an open forum for linguistic research in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Nordic (including Germanic, Finnic, Saami and Greenlandic) and other languages. Its main goals are to create and strengthen connections between researchers working on different languages, with different methodological and theoretical approaches.
The conference series is organized under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists.
The 13th co
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October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Confs: 13th International Conference on Nordic and General Linguistics
As promised when I left Academia(dot)edu a while ago, I have now started to update my page at KCWorks and Humanities Commons.
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
Johan Schalin – Knowledge Commons
hcommons.org
October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As promised when I left Academia(dot)edu a while ago, I have now started to update my page at KCWorks and Humanities Commons.
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
I also took the opportunity to fill in my brand new affiliation with @utu.fi
#langsky
hcommons.org/members/joha...
This is very interesting research. It has implications for stand-alone phonology of L2 languages in general and for the history of early diaspora era Hebrew in particular.
This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:
Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition
This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is very interesting research. It has implications for stand-alone phonology of L2 languages in general and for the history of early diaspora era Hebrew in particular.
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Vi har en ledig stilling som forsker i #runologi for en periode på 12 måneder ved Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO. Stillingen er en del av infrastrukturprosjektet NORCHRON: Norwegian diachronic corpus 200–1814, finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Vi har en ledig stilling som forsker i #runologi for en periode på 12 måneder ved Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO. Stillingen er en del av infrastrukturprosjektet NORCHRON: Norwegian diachronic corpus 200–1814, finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
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Etruscologists!
I am curious if there been any back-up on this inscription in letters “d’apparence étrusque” found in Tunisia? Quote from Chabot, Recueil d’inscriptions libyques; 1941, p. 8.
@olawikander.bsky.social @mattitiahu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social
I am curious if there been any back-up on this inscription in letters “d’apparence étrusque” found in Tunisia? Quote from Chabot, Recueil d’inscriptions libyques; 1941, p. 8.
@olawikander.bsky.social @mattitiahu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Etruscologists!
I am curious if there been any back-up on this inscription in letters “d’apparence étrusque” found in Tunisia? Quote from Chabot, Recueil d’inscriptions libyques; 1941, p. 8.
@olawikander.bsky.social @mattitiahu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social
I am curious if there been any back-up on this inscription in letters “d’apparence étrusque” found in Tunisia? Quote from Chabot, Recueil d’inscriptions libyques; 1941, p. 8.
@olawikander.bsky.social @mattitiahu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social
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Yes to this dream of “a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
For the most part, he’s right: “The feed no longer feels crowded with people but crowded with content. At this point, it has far less to do with people than with consumers and consumption.”
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
www.noemamag.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Yes to this dream of “a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
For anyone’s information who is looking for my publications: I just deleted my Academia(dot)edu account. No explanations needed.
You still find my publications on Researchgate and I plan to start updating on Knowledge commons. My last one I uploaded yesterday:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You still find my publications on Researchgate and I plan to start updating on Knowledge commons. My last one I uploaded yesterday:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The non-front main-stressed vowels in Early Old Nordic – a reconstruction
PDF | The comparative data testifies to an Early Old Nordic three-way contrast between short labialised vowels of different origin. From these... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
www.researchgate.net
September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For anyone’s information who is looking for my publications: I just deleted my Academia(dot)edu account. No explanations needed.
You still find my publications on Researchgate and I plan to start updating on Knowledge commons. My last one I uploaded yesterday:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You still find my publications on Researchgate and I plan to start updating on Knowledge commons. My last one I uploaded yesterday:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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False friends are often wrongly called false cognates. These are very different things.
For example, 'to molest' is a false friend of Spanish 'molestar' (to annoy) but they are true cognates, both coming from Latin 'molestāre' (to bother).
Four graphics, all about false friends and false cognates:
For example, 'to molest' is a false friend of Spanish 'molestar' (to annoy) but they are true cognates, both coming from Latin 'molestāre' (to bother).
Four graphics, all about false friends and false cognates:
September 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
False friends are often wrongly called false cognates. These are very different things.
For example, 'to molest' is a false friend of Spanish 'molestar' (to annoy) but they are true cognates, both coming from Latin 'molestāre' (to bother).
Four graphics, all about false friends and false cognates:
For example, 'to molest' is a false friend of Spanish 'molestar' (to annoy) but they are true cognates, both coming from Latin 'molestāre' (to bother).
Four graphics, all about false friends and false cognates:
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One of the consequences of the IPA lacking a compact symbol for the cross-linguistically common open-central vowel is that many authors are resorting to the slightly higher [ɐ(ː)] as a substitute. Technically, there is [ä], but people seem to hate it for some reason, probably that in several ...
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
One of the consequences of the IPA lacking a compact symbol for the cross-linguistically common open-central vowel is that many authors are resorting to the slightly higher [ɐ(ː)] as a substitute. Technically, there is [ä], but people seem to hate it for some reason, probably that in several ...
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🎺 #CallForPaper 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting, Lund (Sweden), Feb 12-13, 2026
❄️ #FiNo invites submissions in #phonology, incl. #WorkInProgress. Focus on Ls spoken in #Nordic countries encouraged but not mandatory.
⏰ 1-page abstracts due Nov 9, 2025
🔗 fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/f...
❄️ #FiNo invites submissions in #phonology, incl. #WorkInProgress. Focus on Ls spoken in #Nordic countries encouraged but not mandatory.
⏰ 1-page abstracts due Nov 9, 2025
🔗 fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/f...
FiNo 2026 (Lund): Call for abstracts
We are delighted to announce that the 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting will be hosted by the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, 12th–13th of February 2026. We invi…
fonologiinorden.wordpress.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🎺 #CallForPaper 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting, Lund (Sweden), Feb 12-13, 2026
❄️ #FiNo invites submissions in #phonology, incl. #WorkInProgress. Focus on Ls spoken in #Nordic countries encouraged but not mandatory.
⏰ 1-page abstracts due Nov 9, 2025
🔗 fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/f...
❄️ #FiNo invites submissions in #phonology, incl. #WorkInProgress. Focus on Ls spoken in #Nordic countries encouraged but not mandatory.
⏰ 1-page abstracts due Nov 9, 2025
🔗 fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/f...
Viskligär bisi.
September 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Viskligär bisi.
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Om noen runeinteresserte der ute har ønskemål til hva de ville vært interesserte til å lære litt om, så er det fortsatt mulig å komme med forslag.
September 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Om noen runeinteresserte der ute har ønskemål til hva de ville vært interesserte til å lære litt om, så er det fortsatt mulig å komme med forslag.
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We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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September 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
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The disconnect between public presentations of research and the actual research is ever-widening.
Someone sent me this meme about an "MIT study" ...
The study is available here:
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
Someone sent me this meme about an "MIT study" ...
The study is available here:
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
August 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The disconnect between public presentations of research and the actual research is ever-widening.
Someone sent me this meme about an "MIT study" ...
The study is available here:
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
Someone sent me this meme about an "MIT study" ...
The study is available here:
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....
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Concerning basics in phonology Icelandic has restructured the syllable quantity system and done away with contrastive vowel length. This has not happened in Elfdalian, or many Swedish dialects in Finland, or parts of Norrland (e.g. Jämtland, Norrbotten), nor in the exiled ones from Estonia/Ukraine.
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Concerning basics in phonology Icelandic has restructured the syllable quantity system and done away with contrastive vowel length. This has not happened in Elfdalian, or many Swedish dialects in Finland, or parts of Norrland (e.g. Jämtland, Norrbotten), nor in the exiled ones from Estonia/Ukraine.
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The phonological innovations are in fact thorough in comparison to some Scandinavian varieties. Even standard Swedish or Norwegian are more conservative on many accounts. Secondary diphthongisation, delabialisation & things (devoicing/epenthesis) happening to consonant clusters, for a starter.
July 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The phonological innovations are in fact thorough in comparison to some Scandinavian varieties. Even standard Swedish or Norwegian are more conservative on many accounts. Secondary diphthongisation, delabialisation & things (devoicing/epenthesis) happening to consonant clusters, for a starter.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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North American English has largely done away with length distinctions—but not entirely:
weeping willow
[ˈwipʰːɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
We ping Willow.
[wi ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
*We* ping Willow.
[ˈwiː ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
ː lengthens the preceding sound
ˈ indicates stress on the following syllable
1/
weeping willow
[ˈwipʰːɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
We ping Willow.
[wi ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
*We* ping Willow.
[ˈwiː ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
ː lengthens the preceding sound
ˈ indicates stress on the following syllable
1/
July 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
North American English has largely done away with length distinctions—but not entirely:
weeping willow
[ˈwipʰːɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
We ping Willow.
[wi ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
*We* ping Willow.
[ˈwiː ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
ː lengthens the preceding sound
ˈ indicates stress on the following syllable
1/
weeping willow
[ˈwipʰːɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
We ping Willow.
[wi ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
*We* ping Willow.
[ˈwiː ˈpʰɪŋ ˈwɪləw]
ː lengthens the preceding sound
ˈ indicates stress on the following syllable
1/
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What's your *alīnabugô?
It's the reconstruction of what people speaking Proto-Germanic, the distant ancestor of English, called an elbow 2000 years ago.
Here's my second set of 4 graphics showing 16 body parts in Proto-Germanic and its major medieval and modern daughter languages.
1/
It's the reconstruction of what people speaking Proto-Germanic, the distant ancestor of English, called an elbow 2000 years ago.
Here's my second set of 4 graphics showing 16 body parts in Proto-Germanic and its major medieval and modern daughter languages.
1/
July 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What's your *alīnabugô?
It's the reconstruction of what people speaking Proto-Germanic, the distant ancestor of English, called an elbow 2000 years ago.
Here's my second set of 4 graphics showing 16 body parts in Proto-Germanic and its major medieval and modern daughter languages.
1/
It's the reconstruction of what people speaking Proto-Germanic, the distant ancestor of English, called an elbow 2000 years ago.
Here's my second set of 4 graphics showing 16 body parts in Proto-Germanic and its major medieval and modern daughter languages.
1/
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Jag läste den någon gång under åren 2000–2003, så den är nog från 90-talet eller kanske 80-talet.
July 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Jag läste den någon gång under åren 2000–2003, så den är nog från 90-talet eller kanske 80-talet.
Onko tietoa tai vinkkiä tällaisesta romaanista vuosien takaa (ainakin toistakymmentä)?
July 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Onko tietoa tai vinkkiä tällaisesta romaanista vuosien takaa (ainakin toistakymmentä)?
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This is so awesome! I always thought that through the simplifications of Mishnaic Hebrew, the Classical Hebrew tense/aspect-problem was done with. But alas! The complexities are back in a new permutation in Modern Hebrew!
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
Zazim
Podcast Episode · Streetwise Hebrew · 10/12/2013 · 7m
podcasts.apple.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is so awesome! I always thought that through the simplifications of Mishnaic Hebrew, the Classical Hebrew tense/aspect-problem was done with. But alas! The complexities are back in a new permutation in Modern Hebrew!
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
This is so awesome! I always thought that through the simplifications of Mishnaic Hebrew, the Classical Hebrew tense/aspect-problem was done with. But alas! The complexities are back in a new permutation in Modern Hebrew!
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
Zazim
Podcast Episode · Streetwise Hebrew · 10/12/2013 · 7m
podcasts.apple.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is so awesome! I always thought that through the simplifications of Mishnaic Hebrew, the Classical Hebrew tense/aspect-problem was done with. But alas! The complexities are back in a new permutation in Modern Hebrew!
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...
@olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social
tlv1.fm?s=%D7%96%D7%...