@proycon.social.anaproy.nl.ap.brid.gy Do you still maintain the UniLang server? It's been down for over a day

Bedankt! 🙂

(Tweet from March)

Caddo is a language from the Caddoan family spoken in Oklahoma. It currently has only two speakers who learned it as children outside school instruction. One of the many varieties of Caddo is the Hasinai variety. The word "Texas" comes from the Hasinai word táyshaʔ 'friend, ally'

(A tweet from last year)

Aleut is a critically endangered language, apparently with fewer than 80 speakers left, but also one of the few languages indigenous both to Alaska and part of Russia (the Commander Islands off the Kamchatka Peninsula). The Pribilof variety of Alaska has the most speakers

I have two Bluesky invite codes and am not sure who to give them away to. I have an idea for one of them, although I haven't checked yet whether that person is already on Bluesky or not

At least one of my Bluesky posts appears to have been deleted, along with 29 of my tweets and Twitter threads that were about languages. One of the tweets that was deleted is the one this post was based on: https://staging.bsky.app/profile/vijayjohn.bsky.social/post/3jvvcqlhzgm2t

(Abridged version of a tweet from last year)

Aadaab is a gesture used among many Indians and Pakistanis to convey respect. It's not really easy to describe in words in one tweet, so I'll let Wikipedia do the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adab_(gesture). You can see a demonstration here as well

(An old tweet)

Apparently, in Mexico, raising your arm with your palm facing you means 'thank you'. I wasn't aware of this gesture (I feel like I'm not really aware of a lot of gestures...), but it reminds me of another gesture used in South Asian culture to convey respect and known as "aadaab"

(Another old tweet)

Hawaiian is an Eastern Polynesian language and probably the one Polynesian language it's easiest to find learning resources for, maybe aside from Maori, which is also pretty closely related. Hawaiian and Maori are the only languages I've ever found books for to learn them

(An old tweet)

Maori is the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand where it's an official language. It's an Eastern Polynesian language and more specifically Tahitic. All of its closest relatives (including Tahitian, of course) are spoken in either French Polynesia or the Cook Islands

(Modified from an old tweet)

Kalaw Lagaw Ya is a language spoken in the Torres Strait Islands in Australia near Papua New Guinea. It is generally classified as Pama-Nyungan, but much of its vocabulary comes from Meriam Mir, which is in the Eastern Trans-Fly family. Some of the vocab is Austronesian

(Another old tweet)

Torres Strait Creole is an English-based creole spoken on (some of) the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and southwestern Papua New Guinea. It is related to many of the other creoles spoken in the Pacific Ocean such as Tok Pisin and Bislama and less closely to Australian Kriol

(Another old tweet)

Meriam Mir is an Eastern Trans-Fly language spoken in the Torres Strait Islands in Australia near Papua New Guinea. It is apparently the only language indigenous to any part of the modern state of Australia known to be closely related to any languages spoken in Papua New Guinea

(Abridged version of old tweet)

Lower Grand Valley Dani is a Papuan language, generally classified with the other Dani languages as Trans-New Guinea, spoken in the highlands of the Indonesian province of Papua. It's #69 on this map: http://languages.y-bai.com/img/language_map/idn_eastern_papua.png

(Another old tweet)

Turkmen is an Oghuz Turkic language, closely related to Turkish and Azerbaijani. In addition to Turkmenistan, it is also spoken in the neighboring countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and, to a lesser extent, Uzbekistan as well as Tajikistan, Russia, Turkey, and probably Kazakhstan

(This is an old tweet)

Kazakh is a Kipchak Turkic language. In addition to Kazakhstan, it also has official status in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang (northwestern China) and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia's westernmost province. Spelling does not always match pronunciation

मुझे यक़ीन है कि चार महीने पहले मैंने यहाँ हिंदी में एक पोस्ट लिखा था। लगता है कि अब वह कहीं भी नज़र नहीं आता है। क्या मैंने सपना देखा था? उसके बारे में अंग्रेजी में भी लिखा था। मुझे उम्मीद है कि अब से यह पोस्ट ब्लू स्काई में रहेगा।
क्या ब्लू स्काई में किसी को हिंदी आती है? मैंने यहाँ दो-तीन हिन्दीवालों को देखा। उनने भी कहीं हिंदी में कुछ लिखा था। मुझे उम्मीद है कि जो मैं हिंदी में लिखता हूँ वह समझ आता है। मेरे ख़याल से अपनी हिंदी बहुत अच्छी नहीं है

(Inspired by, but not copied from, an old tweet!)

Réunion Creole is a French-based creole spoken on the island of Réunion, located near Mauritius but administratively part of France. It is one of the members of a group of closely related creoles in the region collectively called Bourbonnais Creoles

(A tweet from last year)

Hausa is one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa, apparently from Mali in the west to Sudan in the east, especially in southern Niger and northern Nigeria where at least one of my relatives learned some of it. It is the most widely spoken of the Chadic languages

Esta es la primera vez que escribo algo en español aquí en Bluesky. Ya sé que hay al menos un usuario que habla español y que puede entender lo que estoy escribiendo. Por eso quiero escribir algo en español. Sin embargo, creo que es difícil decidir qué escribir en cualquier idioma, incluso el inglés

Quero tentar escrever um post em português porque já sei que ao menos um brasileiro está aqui no Bluesky. Porém, não sei o que escrever.
Em geral, acho difícil decidir o que escrever no Bluesky. Hoje posso escrever que estudo persa e que tem uma brasileira que estuda no mesmo curso. Às vezes ajudo

(Another tweet from last year)

Karipúna French Creole is a French-based creole spoken on the Uaça Indian Reservation in the northern part of the Brazilian state of Amapá, near the border with French Guiana. At least one variety of Karipúna French Creole is clearly related to French Guianese Creole

(A tweet from last year)

Sranan Tongo is an English-based creole and lingua franca of Suriname although the official language is Dutch and it has some Dutch words. It is related to various creoles spoken along the Atlantic coast but, unlike most of them, does not have similar influence from English

(This too is just an old tweet)

Hup (pronounced like "hoop") is a language from the small Nadahup family spoken by the Hupda. It's spoken in the same region as Tucano (the Vaupés River Basin on the border between Colombia and Brazil). All Hupda (except perhaps very small children) also speak Tucano

(This is an old tweet)

Tucano is one of various Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés River Basin straddling (part of) the border between Colombia and Brazil. Tucanos and various other groups of people in the region are culturally required to marry someone who speaks a language other than Tucano

(Based on an old tweet)

Belize's sole official language is English, but most Belizeans speak Belizean Creole, an English-based creole. Although closely related to other Atlantic creoles, Belizean Creole seems to have been very heavily influenced by English, much more so than e.g. Jamaican Creole