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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 · 6h

Is raar inderdaad. Die dingen horen op de zondagmiddag

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 6h

“From one fricative to another: A perception experiment of lost coda /s/ and voiced phonemic stops as fricatives in Western Andalusian Spanish” by Santiago Arróniz and Erik E. Willis (Oct. ’25) revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ex...

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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 17h

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Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teot...

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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 16h

B. Herin and E. Al-Wer, A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic, 2025 (Open Access).
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 17h

And once more, big 🙏 to @mattitiahu.bsky.social and @olawikander.bsky.social !!!

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 17h

Heurgon translates it as:

"marce unata zutaŝ -- limite des Dardaniens -- à Jupiter -- 1.000 pas".

The relevant edition is
Jacques Heurgon: Inscriptions étrusques de Tunisie", Comptes Rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 113/4 (1969), 526-551.

(on Persée)

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to the invaluable help by @mattitiahu.bsky.social the question has been solved.
Indeed, this is an Etruscan text (or better, 8x the same text) providing mileage info.
The correct transcription is:

m vnata zvtaŝ tvl dardanivm tinŝ M

(Rix, p. 335)
(sorry phone does not have funny S, so ŝ)

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

Etruscologists!
I am curious if there been any back-up on this inscription in letters “d’apparence étrusque” found in Tunisia? Quote from Chabot, Recueil d’inscriptions libyques; 1941, p. 8.

@olawikander.bsky.social @mattitiahu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social

Bir M’cherga (N.-O. De Zagouan). Le Bull. arch. du Comité, 1901, p. clxxii, signale une inscription libyque découverte en cette localité. C’est une erreur. Il s’agit d’une inscription en caractères d’apparence étrusque. Comp. Bull. arch., 1908, p. cclii; 1915, p. clxxv, et surtout ccxxxiii (fac-similé, p. ccxxxv).

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 18h

The idea of an anti-immigration party saying that their country should emulate the UAE is genuinely funny

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Beautiful rendering!

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d

Oh lordy...

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d

Did they build the garage in two stages? That would explain the two gables on the same flat front and the lack of continuity in the bricks between the garages. So maybe in the past - before the second car arrived - you could still see the house? Or did they plan it this way to give that impression?

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d

I greatly admire her work, but I find the representation on the maps often confusing (colors that are almost the same, different symbols for different constellations of the same variants). Not that I would have done better 😁

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 1d

That would even be better! A stray Etruscan in Africa may be unexpected but wouldn't change much.
But an unknown language in a weird variant of Etruscan script in Africa 👌

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, this is very helpful! So if I understand you correctly, this is a genuine Etruscan text?

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

Corresponding to:

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

According to a specialist consulted in 1915, the letters are largely Etruscan, but the language is not. M.J. Martha gave the following transcription of the text:

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

And there is apparently one more:

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

This is our friend:

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

NB. “Bull. arch. du Comité” stands for Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

sorry: Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères du Rif

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

do you use Lafkioui's Atlas linguistique du rifain?

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Greef de Slagersjongen @greef.bsky.social · 2d

Als de Speld gaat, gaat ie hard.

De Speld @speld.nl · 2d

3 vermoorde vrouwen afgelopen week kennelijk niet om het leven gebracht door een asielzoeker - 'Dan hadden we het wel gehoord'

3 vermoorde vrouwen afgelopen week kennelijk niet om het leven gebracht door een asielzoeker

Er zijn in iets meer dan een week tijd weer drie vrouwen in huiselijke sfeer vermoord.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

That is, to be more precise, he *interprets* the transition between released b and d in a word like /bda/ as a relevant vowel thing, while it is neither relevant, nor really a thing - whether the mini-moment between release of b and closure of d counts as a vowel, I leave that to the phono people

Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 2d

And even phonetic transcription demands understanding the system. In his Moroccan work, Behnstedt writes lots of schwas in open syllables, which are in fact him hearing released consonants in consonant clusters as Cə.

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