Sāmapriyavasuḣ
@avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social
Interested in descriptive, historical & contact linguistics.
I like Caucasian and Indo-Iranic languages, and dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas and along the Nile. rẓ́w fan.
I like Caucasian and Indo-Iranic languages, and dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas and along the Nile. rẓ́w fan.
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Today's cool fact about language:
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Today's cool fact about language:
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
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Medical learning
Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie…
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Medical learning
Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie…
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![cover of Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell (eds.), Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular Grammar and Grammarians in Medieval Ireland and Wales [= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 125], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2016.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mil47usygijs2xwdehaopb2j/bafkreid5q5b6cojkhze6s7hdkl2qemq5jd7liitwtbmhq5tavyw2ys7iie@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Medical learning
Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie…
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Medical learning
Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie…
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How would you transcribe the word between 6:30 & 6:32?
youtu.be/DekWvcV7Tnw?...
youtu.be/DekWvcV7Tnw?...
Видео-игра на осетинском для детей. Видео-хъазт иронау сабитӕн "Бакӕс ӕмӕ бахъуыды кӕн"
YouTube video by Agunda Gazdanova
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
How would you transcribe the word between 6:30 & 6:32?
youtu.be/DekWvcV7Tnw?...
youtu.be/DekWvcV7Tnw?...
Heard someone (native English speaker) just now pronounce ‘cat’ with a highly palatalized onset [cʰæʔ]. I almost heard it as ‘chat’, but didn’t only because of context.
She’s inventing French from scratch in a way.
She’s inventing French from scratch in a way.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Heard someone (native English speaker) just now pronounce ‘cat’ with a highly palatalized onset [cʰæʔ]. I almost heard it as ‘chat’, but didn’t only because of context.
She’s inventing French from scratch in a way.
She’s inventing French from scratch in a way.
English [ˈb̥ejɡɫ̩] ⟨bagel⟩
Agul [buˈʕuɫɜj] ‘bagel’
Finding more and more support for the Anglo-Caucasian family. What we think? /g/ > /ʕ/?
Agul [buˈʕuɫɜj] ‘bagel’
Finding more and more support for the Anglo-Caucasian family. What we think? /g/ > /ʕ/?
I think it’d be extremely funny to propose an Anglo-Khinalug family based on nothing but this pair of aspiration alteration in words that otherwise should have nothing to do with each other semantically.
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
English [ˈb̥ejɡɫ̩] ⟨bagel⟩
Agul [buˈʕuɫɜj] ‘bagel’
Finding more and more support for the Anglo-Caucasian family. What we think? /g/ > /ʕ/?
Agul [buˈʕuɫɜj] ‘bagel’
Finding more and more support for the Anglo-Caucasian family. What we think? /g/ > /ʕ/?
I think it’d be extremely funny to propose an Anglo-Khinalug family based on nothing but this pair of aspiration alteration in words that otherwise should have nothing to do with each other semantically.
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I think it’d be extremely funny to propose an Anglo-Khinalug family based on nothing but this pair of aspiration alteration in words that otherwise should have nothing to do with each other semantically.
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Diesmal ein kurzer Buchstabe ...
Lexikon der germanischen Sprachen_sneak preview_Kw
This is a sneak preview of the letter Kw of the Lexikon der germanischen Sprachen, which is not an etymological dictionary but rather an incomplete collection of the inherited Germanic lexicon.
www.academia.edu
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Diesmal ein kurzer Buchstabe ...
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I discovered the most liquid Lautwandel* ever!!**
*Lautwandel = German for 'sound change'
** laut = Indonesian for 'sea'
*Lautwandel = German for 'sound change'
** laut = Indonesian for 'sea'
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I discovered the most liquid Lautwandel* ever!!**
*Lautwandel = German for 'sound change'
** laut = Indonesian for 'sea'
*Lautwandel = German for 'sound change'
** laut = Indonesian for 'sea'
Circassian in the Arab world (unsurprisingly) has adapted a little to Arabic phonology.
Got to listen to quite a bit of Abdzakh West Circassian from Rīḥaniyya. The ejectives still pop, but they and the “hissing-hushing” sibilants /ŝ ẑ/ now induce vowel-backing in the style of Arabic emphatics.
Got to listen to quite a bit of Abdzakh West Circassian from Rīḥaniyya. The ejectives still pop, but they and the “hissing-hushing” sibilants /ŝ ẑ/ now induce vowel-backing in the style of Arabic emphatics.
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Circassian in the Arab world (unsurprisingly) has adapted a little to Arabic phonology.
Got to listen to quite a bit of Abdzakh West Circassian from Rīḥaniyya. The ejectives still pop, but they and the “hissing-hushing” sibilants /ŝ ẑ/ now induce vowel-backing in the style of Arabic emphatics.
Got to listen to quite a bit of Abdzakh West Circassian from Rīḥaniyya. The ejectives still pop, but they and the “hissing-hushing” sibilants /ŝ ẑ/ now induce vowel-backing in the style of Arabic emphatics.
Our Yidgha data shows a couple words with commonplace metathesis among speakers:
- /ɐɡɘɾdo/ ~ /ɐɡɘdɾo/ ‘grape’
- /kɘpoɾ/ ~ /pɘkoɾ/ ‘mouth, lip’
- /ɾɐzɪn/ ~ /ɾɪzɐn/ ‘elbow’ (maybe)
- /ɐɡɘɾdo/ ~ /ɐɡɘdɾo/ ‘grape’
- /kɘpoɾ/ ~ /pɘkoɾ/ ‘mouth, lip’
- /ɾɐzɪn/ ~ /ɾɪzɐn/ ‘elbow’ (maybe)
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Our Yidgha data shows a couple words with commonplace metathesis among speakers:
- /ɐɡɘɾdo/ ~ /ɐɡɘdɾo/ ‘grape’
- /kɘpoɾ/ ~ /pɘkoɾ/ ‘mouth, lip’
- /ɾɐzɪn/ ~ /ɾɪzɐn/ ‘elbow’ (maybe)
- /ɐɡɘɾdo/ ~ /ɐɡɘdɾo/ ‘grape’
- /kɘpoɾ/ ~ /pɘkoɾ/ ‘mouth, lip’
- /ɾɐzɪn/ ~ /ɾɪzɐn/ ‘elbow’ (maybe)
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘flea’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰin
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘time’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰéen
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰin
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘time’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰéen
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘flea’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰin
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘time’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰéen
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰin
Yasin Burushaski kʰen ‘time’
Hunza-Nager Bur. kʰéen
Kalasha & Shina share Skt. v- > b-, but there may be differences internally.
Shina ẓū́b ‘grass’ < dū́rvā indicates -rv- > -bb- > -b(-)
Kalasha sau̯ ‘all’ < sárva- implies -rv- > -vv- > -v(-) (= -u̯)
Shina ẓū́b ‘grass’ < dū́rvā indicates -rv- > -bb- > -b(-)
Kalasha sau̯ ‘all’ < sárva- implies -rv- > -vv- > -v(-) (= -u̯)
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Kalasha & Shina share Skt. v- > b-, but there may be differences internally.
Shina ẓū́b ‘grass’ < dū́rvā indicates -rv- > -bb- > -b(-)
Kalasha sau̯ ‘all’ < sárva- implies -rv- > -vv- > -v(-) (= -u̯)
Shina ẓū́b ‘grass’ < dū́rvā indicates -rv- > -bb- > -b(-)
Kalasha sau̯ ‘all’ < sárva- implies -rv- > -vv- > -v(-) (= -u̯)
Paper-submission page-limits saved me from misinforming the two people who’ll read this thing I submitted a few weeks ago.
Discovered that something I was claiming but had to cut out owing to space-constraints is actually false. But I highly doubt the reviewers would have caught it. Whoosh!!
Discovered that something I was claiming but had to cut out owing to space-constraints is actually false. But I highly doubt the reviewers would have caught it. Whoosh!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Paper-submission page-limits saved me from misinforming the two people who’ll read this thing I submitted a few weeks ago.
Discovered that something I was claiming but had to cut out owing to space-constraints is actually false. But I highly doubt the reviewers would have caught it. Whoosh!!
Discovered that something I was claiming but had to cut out owing to space-constraints is actually false. But I highly doubt the reviewers would have caught it. Whoosh!!
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Do u ever just miss the world without ai images
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Do u ever just miss the world without ai images
You gotta love how Caucasians literally undo centuries of sound changes to pronounce Arabic (voiceless) emphatics as ejectives.
Listen to this Chechen woman’s طيف as тӀойф.
youtube.com/shorts/dicGm...
Listen to this Chechen woman’s طيف as тӀойф.
youtube.com/shorts/dicGm...
Редкие и красивые имена #arabic #english #lingualand #ингушетия
YouTube video by Khava Tsechoeva
youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
You gotta love how Caucasians literally undo centuries of sound changes to pronounce Arabic (voiceless) emphatics as ejectives.
Listen to this Chechen woman’s طيف as тӀойф.
youtube.com/shorts/dicGm...
Listen to this Chechen woman’s طيف as тӀойф.
youtube.com/shorts/dicGm...
Writing that paper on Yidgha and properly calling an important areal contrast in the subcontinent “lamino-coronal” v. “apico-coronal” instead of “dental” v. “retroflex”, which is what it truly is.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Writing that paper on Yidgha and properly calling an important areal contrast in the subcontinent “lamino-coronal” v. “apico-coronal” instead of “dental” v. “retroflex”, which is what it truly is.
The central implication of this tweet stands, but I think I misunderstood his intonation (and missed the “?” on screen somehow). The first clause is a question, not a conditional. More like:
Не ’мбарыс иронау? Уӕд дӕ Ирон нӕ дӕ!
Don’t understand Ossetic? Then you are not an Ossete.
Не ’мбарыс иронау? Уӕд дӕ Ирон нӕ дӕ!
Don’t understand Ossetic? Then you are not an Ossete.
Hardcore understanding of ethnicity.
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The central implication of this tweet stands, but I think I misunderstood his intonation (and missed the “?” on screen somehow). The first clause is a question, not a conditional. More like:
Не ’мбарыс иронау? Уӕд дӕ Ирон нӕ дӕ!
Don’t understand Ossetic? Then you are not an Ossete.
Не ’мбарыс иронау? Уӕд дӕ Ирон нӕ дӕ!
Don’t understand Ossetic? Then you are not an Ossete.
I think it is incredibly funny that in order to pitch a potential hire to a university now, one has to rope “AI” into every job, LOL.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I think it is incredibly funny that in order to pitch a potential hire to a university now, one has to rope “AI” into every job, LOL.
Hardcore understanding of ethnicity.
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Hardcore understanding of ethnicity.
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
«не ’мбарыс иронау, уӕд дӕ ирон нӕ дӕ»
NEG=understand-2SG Ossetic-EQU, then 2SG Ossetian NEG=COP.2SG
“(if you) don’t understand Ossetic, then you are not an Ossete”
Throughout the Muslim world, using (some borrowed version of) Arabic كِتَاب /kitāb/ for ‘book’ is pretty common.
I learned today that some languages of Daghestan, like Dargwa & Rutul, rather use the Arabic جُزْء /ĝuzʾ/ ‘1/30 of the Qurʾān’ as their word for ‘book’, e.g., Dargwa жуз /žuz/.
I learned today that some languages of Daghestan, like Dargwa & Rutul, rather use the Arabic جُزْء /ĝuzʾ/ ‘1/30 of the Qurʾān’ as their word for ‘book’, e.g., Dargwa жуз /žuz/.
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Throughout the Muslim world, using (some borrowed version of) Arabic كِتَاب /kitāb/ for ‘book’ is pretty common.
I learned today that some languages of Daghestan, like Dargwa & Rutul, rather use the Arabic جُزْء /ĝuzʾ/ ‘1/30 of the Qurʾān’ as their word for ‘book’, e.g., Dargwa жуз /žuz/.
I learned today that some languages of Daghestan, like Dargwa & Rutul, rather use the Arabic جُزْء /ĝuzʾ/ ‘1/30 of the Qurʾān’ as their word for ‘book’, e.g., Dargwa жуз /žuz/.
Cute pair of examples from Abdzakh Circassian (works in Temirgoy too) in Konuk (2023) of how ‘my son has fallen ill’ and ‘my pig has fallen ill’ are only distinguished by the possessive prefix, /qʷʰɜ/ ‘pig’ requiring the alienability prefix that /qʷʰɜ/ ‘son’ doesn’t.
In Kabardian, the possessive ..
In Kabardian, the possessive ..
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Cute pair of examples from Abdzakh Circassian (works in Temirgoy too) in Konuk (2023) of how ‘my son has fallen ill’ and ‘my pig has fallen ill’ are only distinguished by the possessive prefix, /qʷʰɜ/ ‘pig’ requiring the alienability prefix that /qʷʰɜ/ ‘son’ doesn’t.
In Kabardian, the possessive ..
In Kabardian, the possessive ..