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Maarten Kossmann
@maartenkossmann.bsky.social
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Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Universiteit Leiden https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann Profile picture: RIL 135
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · Aug 21
A few years ago, Mansour Ghaki published a new Libyco-Berber text from Dougga, which consists of 7 lines of Libyan text, 1 line of (unrelated) Punic text, and two lines that are unreadable.
In line 2, he reads SYN GLDT W MQLZ GLDT WTQN MWSNT
"ŠYN the gld, son of MQLZ(?) the gld, son of ṬQN the mwsn"
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1h
One cannot but love the typical Arabic quadriconsonantal cluster in /fawlklawr/
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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 22h
Look it’s published! 😍
Thank you to the three editors and my co-authors, and now it’s there for all of you (and your students) to read up about comparative syntax 🤓 📖
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Aber das mit den Erdbeeren steht, das können wir noch nicht ;)
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Similar in Dutch btw
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Alles intelligente kann man den Maschinen überlassen. Nur zum Erdbeeren pflücken braucht man noch Menschen. Das Schulkurrikulum sollte in dem Sinne angepasst werden.
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
I am wondering about this. Jean-Baptiste Chabot is the author of the Recueil des Inscriptions Libyques (1940).
But in the wikipedia pages on Jean-Baptiste Chabot he is only mentioned for his work on Syriac.
This cannot be a different person, can it?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ba...
Jean-Baptiste Chabot - Wikipedia
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Koahnic Broadcast Corporation #Indigenous #Native Voices @koahnic.bsky.social · 1d
After an intensive two-year adult immersion program, the number of fluent Spokane Salish language speakers nearly doubled. Some of those program graduates will be hired on as full-time language teaching staff as the tribe expands its language revitalization efforts.
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 1d
"One could say that cows derive their names from creatures in the world, but the reverse would be just as accurate: cows provide the patterns according to which the world is comprehensible."

mouse-magazine.com/issue-4/2022...
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Vanaf p. 79

journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/AA...
Anzeige von Gouda Moroccan Dutch
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Overigens is er momenteel een nieuwe possessiefconstructie: “Dylan de moeder”. Khalid Mourigh heeft er wel eens iets over geschreven, maar de constructie verdient veel meer aandacht
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Philip K. @herbilis.bsky.social · 1d
Immer wenn sich jemand über J. Grimms Forschung lustig macht, habe ich den Impuls rückzufragen: Und, wie viele Forschungszweige mit 200-jähriger Tradition hast du so mitbegründet?
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d
Ik bedoelde "Eefje de Vissers tweede album" tegenover "het tweede album van Eefje de Visser". Voor mij is inderdaad "EdV haar tweede album" niet mogelijk in schrijftaal
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d
Interessant! Het is sowieso meer een stilistische vraag dan dat het ongrammaticaal zou zijn.
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d
Eerlijk gezegd vind ik de genitief-s op een volledige voornaam+achternaam ook niet erg fijn klinken/lezen. In spreektaal zou ik de "haar" constructie hier gebruiken, in schrijftaal gewoon iets met "van".
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Ḥamid Ouyachi @hamidouyachi.bsky.social · 2d
Forthcoming:

First two books to roll out of G'town U Press's Amazigh Studies Series:

1. Brahim Akhiate, The Amazigh Revival (translated by Paul Raymond)

2. Aksil Azergui, Bread of the Ravens (translated, revised & edited by Hamid Ouyachi)
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Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social · 4d
The first translations in the Amazigh Studies series published by Georgetown University Press! These stunning covers highlight our visual identity! Send us your proposals! If you are coming to MESA, stop by our booth at the book fair. We’ll have swags and literature to share!
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d
Beautiful!
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Ḥamid Ouyachi @hamidouyachi.bsky.social · 2d
Words in the speech bubble:

if you cannot live with little, you cannot live with a lot...
satiety is in the heart... (slurp)
turn your eye away from that which your paw cannot reach...
Picture showing a cherry stained wooden table with a a blue glaze plate with grilled hamburgers. At the edge of the table peeks the head of a dog staring intently at the plate. A speech balloon pointing at the head at the dog was added with words in Tamazight (Berber)
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much!
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d
Would you be willing to explain it to a total outsider? I have seen these posts and wondered what the social meaning of the “da” here is (and also, more basically: what is “da”? the article? (but isn’t that AAVE-coded?) an abbreviation? something baseball related? something from the Pullman strike?)
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 3d
Abbot Chabot would have been a marvellous Reviewer 2.

(I understand his frustration: all we have is a badly made copy of this rare bilingual inscription that got lost somehow - RIL 803)
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 3d
5 words
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 3d
could this be a meme?
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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 4d
autumn in Leiden
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