José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
@shortest-gesar.bsky.social
Someday I will complete the translation of Pałuba by Karol Irzykowski.
📍Kraków, Poland
📍Kraków, Poland
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In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism
#datatools #studytools #academicsky
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/14/r...
#datatools #studytools #academicsky
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Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review
The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of Tibetan canonical literature. Developed by the Tibetan Manuscript P…
digitalorientalist.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In today’s post 🗃️ Rachael Griffiths introduces the Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur studies 💻 the largest open-access database for #Tibetan canonical literature! #TibetanStudies #DigitalHumanities #history #buddhism
#datatools #studytools #academicsky
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/14/r...
#datatools #studytools #academicsky
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/14/r...
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If you're new to Transkribus and transcribing with AI, then check out this recording of our webinar on using public AI models 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNL...
Using Public AI Models with Transkribus Webinar (English)
YouTube video by Transkribus
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February 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you're new to Transkribus and transcribing with AI, then check out this recording of our webinar on using public AI models 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNL...
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Reposting this again for good measure. What a great, freely downloadable volume.
see also this more recent edition and the interesting essay on the opening lines by Eckart Frahm: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Enuma Elish
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February 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposting this again for good measure. What a great, freely downloadable volume.
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"The Secret Vow to the Goddess"
We congratulate Dr Alaka Chudal (@istb-univienna.bsky.social) and Dr Jessica Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University) who have completed the first English translation of the Svasthānīvratakathā, a vital part of Nepali religious life.
📸: Nepali News/J. Birkenholtz
We congratulate Dr Alaka Chudal (@istb-univienna.bsky.social) and Dr Jessica Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University) who have completed the first English translation of the Svasthānīvratakathā, a vital part of Nepali religious life.
📸: Nepali News/J. Birkenholtz
February 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"The Secret Vow to the Goddess"
We congratulate Dr Alaka Chudal (@istb-univienna.bsky.social) and Dr Jessica Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University) who have completed the first English translation of the Svasthānīvratakathā, a vital part of Nepali religious life.
📸: Nepali News/J. Birkenholtz
We congratulate Dr Alaka Chudal (@istb-univienna.bsky.social) and Dr Jessica Birkenholtz (Pennsylvania State University) who have completed the first English translation of the Svasthānīvratakathā, a vital part of Nepali religious life.
📸: Nepali News/J. Birkenholtz
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Don't believe everything you read online. A fake news report that "lost" works of Apollonius of Perga have been newly discovered in Arabic. Actually they were discovered in the 17th century and published again in 1990.
#AncientBluesky
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...
#AncientBluesky
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...
A fake media story about “discovery” of lost works by Apollonius of Perge
Six days ago, the “TürkiyeToday” website published a story revealing that lost works by the ancient mathematician, Apollonius of Perge, had been found in an Arabic manuscript in Leiden …
www.roger-pearse.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Don't believe everything you read online. A fake news report that "lost" works of Apollonius of Perga have been newly discovered in Arabic. Actually they were discovered in the 17th century and published again in 1990.
#AncientBluesky
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...
#AncientBluesky
www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...
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#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#OTD 139 years ago, Maria Klingenheben-von Tiling (1886-1974) was born 🥳 In her research, she specialised in the Cushitic and Bantu languages of Africa, such as Somali and Swahili, respectively. She was active at the Hamburg Colonial Institute.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
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Do I know anyone here in the biomed fields, esp. pharmacy or biotech, willing to speak to me about scholarships/funding opportunities for a Master’s in the field in Europe or North America? This is for a Syrian acquaintance who’s just finished her undergrad in this area and looking to get ...
February 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do I know anyone here in the biomed fields, esp. pharmacy or biotech, willing to speak to me about scholarships/funding opportunities for a Master’s in the field in Europe or North America? This is for a Syrian acquaintance who’s just finished her undergrad in this area and looking to get ...
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How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes theconversation.com/...
How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.
theconversation.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes theconversation.com/...
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India’s linguistic diversity shines | In conversation with Guillaume Jacques
youtube.com/watch?v=sYY6...
youtube.com/watch?v=sYY6...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
India’s linguistic diversity shines | In conversation with Guillaume Jacques
youtube.com/watch?v=sYY6...
youtube.com/watch?v=sYY6...
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🗃️ In the first part of three articles, Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong explores how to use NDLJP's digital collections to reconstruct the biographies of little known historical figures 📜 🏺 ⛩️ #digitalhumanities #history #historicalfigures #Japan #coding #academicsky
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digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Unearthing Modern Japan’s Subterranean Networks with the National Diet Library’s (NDL) Full-Text Search System (Part 1): Kugimiya Iwao and the Circles of Orthodox Christians
Introduction In 2021, Japan’s NDL launched a project to digitise around 300,000 books (approximately 45 million digital images) in that fiscal year, marking the largest single mass digitisation eff…
digitalorientalist.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🗃️ In the first part of three articles, Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong explores how to use NDLJP's digital collections to reconstruct the biographies of little known historical figures 📜 🏺 ⛩️ #digitalhumanities #history #historicalfigures #Japan #coding #academicsky
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digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/11/u...
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digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/11/u...
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I agree with this 100%. And would add "classification" to that list
February 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I agree with this 100%. And would add "classification" to that list
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Open access: “Chinese Euphonics: Phonological Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts” by Jeffrey R. Tharsen (Dec. ’24) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
February 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Open access: “Chinese Euphonics: Phonological Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts” by Jeffrey R. Tharsen (Dec. ’24) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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If you liked "Putin's Palace": here's how Viktor Orbán’s family and childhood friend rule over an empire of luxury capitalism. The authors of the film are now facing fierce attacks in government media, including accusations of Ukrainian (!) funding. (EN subs!)
A dinasztia (The Dynasty) - így született az Orbán család gazdasági birodalma
YouTube video by Direkt36
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February 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If you liked "Putin's Palace": here's how Viktor Orbán’s family and childhood friend rule over an empire of luxury capitalism. The authors of the film are now facing fierce attacks in government media, including accusations of Ukrainian (!) funding. (EN subs!)
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New book review out by me of:
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic. New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics 26 (2025), 213–222
preprint: www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic. New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics 26 (2025), 213–222
preprint: www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...
Review of: Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic, 2023 (preprint)
Review of: Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic, 2023 (preprint)
www.academia.edu
February 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New book review out by me of:
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic. New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics 26 (2025), 213–222
preprint: www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, The Accents of Celtic. New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2023, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics 26 (2025), 213–222
preprint: www.academia.edu/127518573/Re...
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Hey, Translators!
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
International Japanese-English Translation Conference
ijet.jat.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hey, Translators!
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
IJET 33, JAT's annual Japanese/English translation and interpretation conference, is going to be May 9-11 in Fukuoka, Japan. Registration is open, and Early Bird pricing ends Friday! Sign up now to save 5,000 yen.
(Boosts appreciated!)
#Japan #Translation #xl8
ijet.jat.org
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If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
Call for Applications: Short-term Visiting Fellowships in 2026
The Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) is a forum for intensive interdisciplinary academic exchange.
www.cas.lmu.de
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
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#OTD 141 years ago, Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was born 🥳 Anthropologist, phonologist, and an expert on Native American languages, he claimed (in 1918 in a letter to Alfred Kroeber) that "Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America".
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
January 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#OTD 141 years ago, Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was born 🥳 Anthropologist, phonologist, and an expert on Native American languages, he claimed (in 1918 in a letter to Alfred Kroeber) that "Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America".
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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I am very sad to learn of the death of Ian Maddieson (on Sunday, Feb. 2). He was a creative thinker, an inspiring linguist, and a wonderful colleague who made a big difference to me intellectually and personally.
February 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I am very sad to learn of the death of Ian Maddieson (on Sunday, Feb. 2). He was a creative thinker, an inspiring linguist, and a wonderful colleague who made a big difference to me intellectually and personally.
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Now available (from a toll-free link!):
Anna Bromirskaya, Nikolai Grishin, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey Loesov, Of Rare and Obscure Words, Journal of Semitic Studies 70.1 (2025): 67–86 (Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester)
Anna Bromirskaya, Nikolai Grishin, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey Loesov, Of Rare and Obscure Words, Journal of Semitic Studies 70.1 (2025): 67–86 (Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester)
Of Rare and Obsolete Words
Abstract. Older residents of the Modern Western Aramaic-speaking village of Maaloula are keenly aware of the progressive impoverishment of their lexicon as
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February 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Now available (from a toll-free link!):
Anna Bromirskaya, Nikolai Grishin, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey Loesov, Of Rare and Obscure Words, Journal of Semitic Studies 70.1 (2025): 67–86 (Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester)
Anna Bromirskaya, Nikolai Grishin, Charles G. Häberl, and Sergey Loesov, Of Rare and Obscure Words, Journal of Semitic Studies 70.1 (2025): 67–86 (Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester)
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New £2.5m project launched to help preserve Cornish language www.bbc.com/news/art...
Virtual reality project aims to preserve Cornish language
A project led by Anglia Ruskin University will focus on Cornwall's "incredible linguistic heritage".
www.bbc.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New £2.5m project launched to help preserve Cornish language www.bbc.com/news/art...
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New translation of a great old text... and you KNOW how I love old texts.
It's great to see this enthusiasm from @maklelan.bsky.social about 'Enuma Elish'!
Check out his tiktok video about the book: bit.ly/40Febis
Read Enuma Elish open access: bit.ly/4fq3MwM
Get your copy: bit.ly/4hauaMm
Check out his tiktok video about the book: bit.ly/40Febis
Read Enuma Elish open access: bit.ly/4fq3MwM
Get your copy: bit.ly/4hauaMm
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New translation of a great old text... and you KNOW how I love old texts.
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What are some well-curated freely available online dictionaries of terminology of linguistics? For English, the only one I can think of is glossary.sil.org/term. For German, there is: grammis.ids-mannheim.de/terminologie. Are there good dictionaries for other languages?
Wissenschaftliche Terminologie
grammis ist ein Informationssystem zur deutschen Grammatik und präsentiert aktuelle Forschung zu Syntax, Morphologie und Semantik sowie Wörterbücher, Bibliografien und linguistische Datenbanken.
grammis.ids-mannheim.de
February 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
What are some well-curated freely available online dictionaries of terminology of linguistics? For English, the only one I can think of is glossary.sil.org/term. For German, there is: grammis.ids-mannheim.de/terminologie. Are there good dictionaries for other languages?
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Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
December 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...
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Full professorship in Indo-European linguistics and philology at EPHE/PSL, Paris: www.ephe.psl.eu/sites/defaul... (apply by March 11)
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Full professorship in Indo-European linguistics and philology at EPHE/PSL, Paris: www.ephe.psl.eu/sites/defaul... (apply by March 11)