Axel Jagau
@yraneac.bsky.social
Läbides inimkeelte metsi // Po puću přez lěsy rěčow // Kynii kelenii oi modoor ajalakani // בדרכי ביערות השפה
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(TÜ eesti ja üldkeeleteaduse instituut)
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(TÜ eesti ja üldkeeleteaduse instituut)
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700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
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🚨 New in the Cambridge Elements in Phonology series 🚨
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
Phonology in Language Documentation
Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Phonology in Language Documentation
cup.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨 New in the Cambridge Elements in Phonology series 🚨
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.
https://cup.org/4ptSdd8
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦
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Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia.
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • EQUATOR
The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter
www.equator.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Take time to read Soyonbo Borjigin's personal essay on his career as a journalist in Inner Mongolia.
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Reads like a Murakami novel. Intimate and fluent in detailing the cultural, the political and everything else in the liminal.
#mongolsky
www.equator.org/articles/the...
‘The aim of China’s ethnic language services is to allow “the leader’s thoughts to penetrate the hearts of people of different ethnicities like a shower of honey”’
www.tibetanreview.net/china-has-in...
www.tibetanreview.net/china-has-in...
China has increased radio coverage in Tibet, Xinjiang to fill void left by exit of US-backed services - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Nov25’25) – There has been a significant expansion in reported broadcasts by state-run China National Radio (CNR), especially in Tibetan and Uyghur even a US-backed Voice of Americ...
www.tibetanreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
‘The aim of China’s ethnic language services is to allow “the leader’s thoughts to penetrate the hearts of people of different ethnicities like a shower of honey”’
www.tibetanreview.net/china-has-in...
www.tibetanreview.net/china-has-in...
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So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Roberte Hamayon, le chamanisme et au-delà : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Par Antoine Dhulster. Voyage en archives à la découverte de la surnature et du monde des esprits des peuples de l'Asie, en hommage à Roberte Hamayon. Cette anthropologue disparue le 18 mars 2025 était...
www.radiofrance.fr
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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No longer under embargo since Friday: 🤓🙏
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Manchu-language Books in Qing China
It has long been assumed that the Manchu language, the native language of the Qing rulers, dwindled to insignificance by the nineteenth century. This dissertation counters this narrative through an ex...
nrs.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
No longer under embargo since Friday: 🤓🙏
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos 2023 Manchu-language Books in Qing China @ nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...
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Wait, what? 😜
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Wait, what? 😜
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
"However, he soon left linguistics for more important things—literature."
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Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today, we published a paper on the strength of language universals (if language has X, it also has Y) given spatial & phylogenetic autocorrelation in @nathumbehav.nature.com ! It is a cool research project, led by the brilliant Annemarie Verkerk at @uni-saarland.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In celebration of international #EspressoDay, we'd like to share this review of a coffee machine, taken from the Shanghai Social magazine (1914). This was a monthly publication that began as a women's magazine but expanded to cover various aspects of social life in Shanghai.
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
In celebration of international #EspressoDay, we'd like to share this review of a coffee machine, taken from the Shanghai Social magazine (1914). This was a monthly publication that began as a women's magazine but expanded to cover various aspects of social life in Shanghai.
Reposted by Axel Jagau
“Scholars from Vilnius University in Lithuania have launched a breakthrough AI tool capable of reading handwritten Yiddish.”
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
Vilnius University launches new AI tool that accurately reads handwritten Yiddish
This will “contribute to advancing archival research on the history of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe,” said Sergii Gurbych, who created the model.
www.jns.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“Scholars from Vilnius University in Lithuania have launched a breakthrough AI tool capable of reading handwritten Yiddish.”
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
www.jns.org/vilnius-univ...
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“The Pravda network is one of the most prolific Russia-aligned information operations. […] ISD found that hundreds of media webpages have cited Pravda network articles by linking to them, including news outlets, fact-checkers and academic institutions.” www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Link by link: Hundreds of webpages cite pro-Russia Pravda network
ISD has built a free browser extension to help individuals recognise Pravda network sites, which hundreds of media outlets still treat as credible.
www.isdglobal.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“The Pravda network is one of the most prolific Russia-aligned information operations. […] ISD found that hundreds of media webpages have cited Pravda network articles by linking to them, including news outlets, fact-checkers and academic institutions.” www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Livonian place names arising as part of the linguistic landscape in Latvia – slowly but still.
(Photo: Ventspils novada pašvaldība / Līvõd institūt)
(Photo: Ventspils novada pašvaldība / Līvõd institūt)
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Livonian place names arising as part of the linguistic landscape in Latvia – slowly but still.
(Photo: Ventspils novada pašvaldība / Līvõd institūt)
(Photo: Ventspils novada pašvaldība / Līvõd institūt)
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We are always looking for submissions, all year around!
Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.
Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are always looking for submissions, all year around!
Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.
Are you working on #DH in the fields of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern studies? Send us your notes, intro pieces and more. All info on our website, digitalorientalist.com.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖
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Excited to see our 136-page report on Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang's agricultural production & land grabbing now published with University of Sheffield's International Network for Critical China Studies.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to see our 136-page report on Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang's agricultural production & land grabbing now published with University of Sheffield's International Network for Critical China Studies.
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
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Old Uyghur word of the day
/edi/ owner, possessor
as in T II K 2a I v, top (ed. Lieu, Old Turk., p. 46)
/kutlug bolzun bo bitig edisi/
"May this book's owner be favored!"
/edi/ owner, possessor
as in T II K 2a I v, top (ed. Lieu, Old Turk., p. 46)
/kutlug bolzun bo bitig edisi/
"May this book's owner be favored!"
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Old Uyghur word of the day
/edi/ owner, possessor
as in T II K 2a I v, top (ed. Lieu, Old Turk., p. 46)
/kutlug bolzun bo bitig edisi/
"May this book's owner be favored!"
/edi/ owner, possessor
as in T II K 2a I v, top (ed. Lieu, Old Turk., p. 46)
/kutlug bolzun bo bitig edisi/
"May this book's owner be favored!"
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"The study found that people who speak only one language or monolinguals were more likely to age faster than people who speak multiple languages."
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Speaking more than one language may help the brain stay younger
Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain's aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging.
phys.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"The study found that people who speak only one language or monolinguals were more likely to age faster than people who speak multiple languages."
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Shhe Arperiar Ipdzthirary ir tie Wese?
June 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Shhe Arperiar Ipdzthirary ir tie Wese?
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Don't feed the Kulturkampf www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/wissenschaft...
Kommentar - Wie aktivistische Wissenschaft der Forschung schadet
Das „Nature Psychology Review“ hat Forscher dazu aufgefordert, Publikationen von Minderheiten häufiger zu zitieren. Doch das macht die Welt nicht gerechter.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Don't feed the Kulturkampf www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/wissenschaft...
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By the early 20th century there was an unofficial race to capture a photograph of Lhasa, the religious center of Tibet.
In 1905 National Geographic printed a few of the first photos of the region and a decade later, in 1916, published a large panoramic insert of Lhasa's Potala Palace. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
In 1905 National Geographic printed a few of the first photos of the region and a decade later, in 1916, published a large panoramic insert of Lhasa's Potala Palace. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
By the early 20th century there was an unofficial race to capture a photograph of Lhasa, the religious center of Tibet.
In 1905 National Geographic printed a few of the first photos of the region and a decade later, in 1916, published a large panoramic insert of Lhasa's Potala Palace. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
In 1905 National Geographic printed a few of the first photos of the region and a decade later, in 1916, published a large panoramic insert of Lhasa's Potala Palace. 🧵
🗃️ 📜 #Tibet
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
‘The reality is that there have never been unqualifiedly bad or good cultures, anywhere, at any time. Human beings are too complex for that to be the case.’
open.substack.com/pub/figsinwi...
open.substack.com/pub/figsinwi...
Should we destroy the classics to save them from Whiteness?
One academic’s misguided quest to do away with the Greco-Romans
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
‘The reality is that there have never been unqualifiedly bad or good cultures, anywhere, at any time. Human beings are too complex for that to be the case.’
open.substack.com/pub/figsinwi...
open.substack.com/pub/figsinwi...
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16) the best historical pronunciation of Hebrew is the Provençal one, for the sheer audacity of its consonant shifts.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
![The very unusual pronunciation tradition of Hebrew can be seen in these examples: the characteristic pronunciation of Hebrew ṯ, s, ś, ṣ, and word-final ṭ and ḏ as [f], z as [v], and š as [s], word-final r as [χ], and syllable-final /n/ and /m/ as [ŋ].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fujsnmqkn7n4pcmd5ybt7jld/bafkreihdjlyzfdte2j3caycwnw7vpnlzajr236hjpenbtm5dec7ttceaga@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
16) the best historical pronunciation of Hebrew is the Provençal one, for the sheer audacity of its consonant shifts.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.
sorry, I mean:
fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.