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Johan Schalin

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PhD, nordiska språk, phonology, etymologi, East Nordic, Finnic, lainasanatutkimus, dialektologi, diachronic linguistics, ortnamn/paikannimet, Northwest Semitic, Catalan. #langsky

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · May 17

This linguistic sketch of KAJ’s song in Swedish dialect is now out, five pages with lyrics, English lyrics running in parallel and a commentary to the dialectal traits in its own column with hyperlinks.
#Eurovision2025
#ESC2025
#Eurovision
#Langsky
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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · 1d

Well deserved!

Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · 2d

This is very interesting research. It has implications for stand-alone phonology of L2 languages in general and for the history of early diaspora era Hebrew in particular.

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:

Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition

This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 3d

Vi har en ledig stilling som forsker i #runologi for en periode på 12 måneder ved Kulturhistorisk museum, UiO. Stillingen er en del av infrastrukturprosjektet NORCHRON: Norwegian diachronic corpus 200–1814, finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

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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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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 15d

Yes to this dream of “a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”

Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 16d

For the most part, he’s right: “The feed no longer feels crowded with people but crowded with content. At this point, it has far less to do with people than with consumers and consumption.”
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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · 17d

For anyone’s information who is looking for my publications: I just deleted my Academia(dot)edu account. No explanations needed.
You still find my publications on Researchgate and I plan to start updating on Knowledge commons. My last one I uploaded yesterday:

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(PDF) The non-front main-stressed vowels in Early Old Nordic – a reconstruction

PDF | The comparative data testifies to an Early Old Nordic three-way contrast between short labialised vowels of different origin. From these... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 24d

False friends are often wrongly called false cognates. These are very different things.

For example, 'to molest' is a false friend of Spanish 'molestar' (to annoy) but they are true cognates, both coming from Latin 'molestāre' (to bother).

Four graphics, all about false friends and false cognates:

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 27d

One of the consequences of the IPA lacking a compact symbol for the cross-linguistically common open-central vowel is that many authors are resorting to the slightly higher [ɐ(ː)] as a substitute. Technically, there is [ä], but people seem to hate it for some reason, probably that in several ...

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Radical, A Journal of Phonology @radical-phonology.bsky.social · 27d

🎺 #CallForPaper 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting, Lund (Sweden), Feb 12-13, 2026

❄️ #FiNo invites submissions in #phonology, incl. #WorkInProgress. Focus on Ls spoken in #Nordic countries encouraged but not mandatory.

⏰ 1-page abstracts due Nov 9, 2025

🔗 fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/f...

FiNo 2026 (Lund): Call for abstracts

We are delighted to announce that the 11th Fonologi i Norden meeting will be hosted by the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University, 12th–13th of February 2026. We invi…

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Viskligär bisi.

Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yee. Haw.

two maps--of the US and the world--with the legend "tell me where you are from using only 2 words"

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Sep 5

It is so common that Finnish and Swedish semantic fields converge in Finland. First Finnish calqued Swedish for hundreds of years and now Fenno-Swedish calques Finnish in return. So old words that went out of use in Sweden survive supported by Finnish: Idas = viitsiä, nännas=tohtia, täckas=kehdata.

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fenno-Swedish:
- kunna (to be able to/to have the skill to)
- förmå (to have the ability/courage)
- få (to be allowed to)
- orka (to have the initiative/strength to)
Finland-typical Swedish
- idas (to feel like doing)
- nännas (have the heart to)
- täckas (to dare to)

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Om noen runeinteresserte der ute har ønskemål til hva de ville vært interesserte til å lære litt om, så er det fortsatt mulig å komme med forslag.

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@manuscripta.bsky.social @manuscripta.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is also counterintuitive that loanwords assume unique/ idiosyncratic inflections. Like identical present and past in Swedish, while it has no infinitive (except in Fenno-Swedish: ”att måsta”).

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Sep 2

In Swedish (a Low German borrowing) ”måste” is both present and past tense. But dialects have struggled to reanalyse the word. Where I come from the ”-st” has been analysed as the mediopassive suffix on native ”må”. Accordingly, the past tense has become ”mådist” and the perfect ”ha mådast”.

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Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social · Aug 31

Could it be this one? The guy has other stuff on o-vocalism in PIE too, on his Academia.edu site: academia.edu/resource/wor...

The twofold development of PIE *o in Greek, Italic and Celtic. As june of 2025

I consider that PIE *o split into /a/ and /o/ in Greek, Latin and Celtic, hence most of the /a/ vocalism can be derived from PIE *o regardless laryngeal coloring. I consider, contrary to the tradition...

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