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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 2h

I looked up where this Urmiya is. Right between the northern (Circassian-speaking) villages of Adygea and Armavir, where the (formerly?) Circassian-speaking Armenians live.

So, these Aramæans almost certainly have had contact with Circassian-speakers. Wonder if loanwords and such exist.

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

#TIL there's a majority #Aramaic -speaking village in Southern Russia. First variety of Semitic to settle north of the Caucasus?

The Girl in the Ape’s House: A folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic variety of Urmiya, Russia

The article discusses dialectal and folkloristic features of an oral narrative in a NorthEastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) variety recently recorded in the Southern Russian village of Urmiya. The dialect of ...

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Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 15h

Every time a MAGA says "George Soros," replace it with "The Jews" and you'll understand the motive.

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Katuwestākos Göransson @seadogdriftwood.bsky.social · 15h

Well, this is gonna make teaching piano awkward...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15h

In his talk, he will speak about the folk-metal band Eluveitie who put to music some of my lyrics I wrote in the Neo-Gaulish language:

1. Slania's Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQm...
2. Siraxta: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITFX...
3. Omnos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=msRy...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15h

Two years ago, he interviewed me in two episodes about Ancient Celtic languages:

1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Px...
2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivTy...

I am very much looking forward to meeting Frédéric in person. He said that he would mention my work on Neo-Gaulish in his talk as well.
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15h

...Samhain folklore in the School's collection, I see that the 1st speaker will be Frédéric Armao (Uni Toulon), who'll speak on "From Ancient Fires to Amplifiers: Samhain in Celtic Metal Culture".
Frédéric entertains the "Imaginaire Celtique" channel on YouTube (www.youtube.com/@imaginairec...). /2

Imaginaire Celtique

Qui sont les Celtes ? Que connait-on de leurs rites et croyances ? Que sait-on de leurs divinités et héros ? Quel héritage ont-ils laissé dans nos cultures contemporaines ? Notre souhait est de rend...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 16h

Mycket rolig, insiktsfull och positiv understreckare av Kristoffer Leandoer i dagens SvD om min nya bok "Den undflyende ormen: Kampen mot drakar, kaos och undergång från Bibeln till vår tid"! (På Nirstedt/Litteratur)

Partial shot of Swedish-language review of my new book, too long to summarize. Text is by Kristoffer Leandoer in today's Svenska Dagbladet.

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Dan Raccoon @danraccoon.bsky.social · 17h

The most likely suspects in the #Louvre robbery, based on the stunning daylight brazenness of the crime.

Although they might have been accompanied by a small pink alien or a guy in a cheap rat suit...

Vic the Slick, shifty salesman and career criminal from "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

Double Trouble, party animals and career criminals from "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

Eartha Brute, all-brawn and no-brain career criminal from "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

Patty Larceny, dangerously deceptive school girl and career criminal from "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 19h

Poor old Grok isnt doing so well.
You will never substitute the persistence of solid human research with AI nonsense

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BBC Verify Live: Debunking claims US 'No Kings' crowd video is old footage

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

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Dan Shive @danshive.bsky.social · 17h

Replacing an expert with “AI” isn’t trading one expert for another. It’s closer to replacing an expert with an amateur con artist coasting on plagiarism, and whose mistakes keep having to be cleaned up by people who actually know what they’re doing.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, also! The whole Jesus association kind of dominates for me but I guess it must have been widespread?

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Aner Ottolenghi @anerottolenghi.bsky.social · 22h

Isn't the rolling door a reference to burial chambers from the second Temple era?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 22h

The picture at the top of this thread shows I didn't switch the genders: Z. for a male there.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 22h

2) Many headstones with a Dutch abbreviation "Z.A.R.I.V." (♂️) or "H.A.R.I.V." (♀️). Expect a translation of תנצב"ה but apparently not. I guess "Zijn/haar A. ruste in vrede", "His/her A. rest in peace", but what is A.? Or did I switch the genders and it's"Hij/zij…", "H/she…"? @bartwallet.bsky.social?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 22h

Notes from the Jewish cemetery in Vught 🇳🇱:
1) Very stylish 1930s monument for one Karel Azijnman. Interesting reference to his family as "the House of Azijnman" in the inscription. The rolling stone door reminds me of the Susya synagogue but is more common in ancient Christian architecture, I think.

An elaborate funerary monument in what I think is pink granite stands in a field of grass between more ordinary grey headstones with black Hebrew and Dutch lettering. The monument includes a round grey granite slab with a star of David and the inscription הכל הבל, "all is futility". An oil lamp has been carved into a niche in the top left.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

It appears we have an infestation of foul mouthed sorts appearing on Bluesky.
Block well. Report when needed

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Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism Amateur @ot-tc-amateur.bsky.social · 1d

In the 1300s there were Arabic-speaking merchants in the Crimea and the area ruled by the Golden Horde, but perhaps they don't count as "settled"?

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

#TIL there's a majority #Aramaic -speaking village in Southern Russia. First variety of Semitic to settle north of the Caucasus?

The Girl in the Ape’s House: A folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic variety of Urmiya, Russia

The article discusses dialectal and folkloristic features of an oral narrative in a NorthEastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) variety recently recorded in the Southern Russian village of Urmiya. The dialect of ...

www.academia.edu

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

That's actually fairly authentic for Styrian varieties. In my own variety (right to the northeast of Styria), all syllable-final l's would be turned into high vowels.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 1d

Except for “wild”. I don’t think I’ve encountered that word (or a similar environment) spoken, so, don’t know what to expect at all. :)

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, sure. BTW, "fahl" has a very bookish aura, and is rare even in the standard language. I don't think anyone would use it in normal conversation.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 1d

A perpetual problem with laboratory phonetics. There is always the risk of exaggeration or unnatural prompts (like you say with Std. Grm. lexemes here). I will be on the lookout for something in casual, natural speech.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

...those words in my native variety, they would sound completely different, with a very different phonology.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

What is weird about this list is that it consists of Standard German lexemes in Standard German phonology, filtered through something like Austrian German phonetics (except for the two explicitely dialectal pronunciations). So the whole thing sounds pretty "stilted" to me.
If I were to pronounce...

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 1d

Could be, I don’t quite have explicit experience in Austria. I’ve mostly heard this on the internet/online. But what I have heard does accord with these recordings.

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