Conal Jarvis

U of T’22
Interests: linguistics, the ANE, IR, and planetology.
“. . . the mighty man, King of Ur, King of Sumer and Akkad. . .”

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@AlainnaJJ Sticking my head back into twitter for a sec- do you want to come to Bluesky or are you going down with the ship here? I have an invite code if you want

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@FossilHistory That image on the cover scared the crap out of me as a child. Something about those eyes…

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@lameensouag Stupid question, but how can a language have one phonemic vowel?

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@giuliasrossi Ha! Our forecast in Toronto says only nickel-sized hail for us.

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@Sharon_Kuruvila

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@revhowardarson Chinampas?

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@EnlightenedDINO @golikehellmachi

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@revhowardarson @avzaagzonunaada @hemuphobia @adam_farris1 I thought I saw that someone proposed a link with languages in Ecuador, but that was ages ago and I can’t remember where.

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@avzaagzonunaada @hemuphobia @revhowardarson I’ll take your word for it- my impression is based solely on reading the chapter in Woodard a year ago

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@avzaagzonunaada @hemuphobia @revhowardarson Yeah, my solely vibes-based impression is that we have more from Elamite than Hurrian, but way less than say Hittite or Luwian cuneiform

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@avzaagzonunaada @hemuphobia @revhowardarson Hey, you’re the closest thing we’ve got (plus you actually HAVE studied Dravidian stuff in at least some depth). I have McAlpin’s paper that I still need to go through, but it uh raised an eyebrow for me when it came out…

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@hemuphobia @revhowardarson @avzaagzonunaada OOH OOH while i remember- they may have just deciphered Linear Elamite a year or two ago

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@hemuphobia @revhowardarson Non-expert weighing in (@avzaagzonunaada is the resident expert), but Elamite is decently attested IIRC: some royal inscriptions, peace treaties, and Achaemenid administrative texts.

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@un_a_valeable Legitimately amazed he actually says please

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@CasaubonZ @revhowardarson As promised, the 1st tweet in (mediocre) Middle Egyptian! (Please excuse the quality of handwriting in both hieroglyphs and English)

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@CasaubonZ @revhowardarson I will probably do the others when I have time

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@CasaubonZ @revhowardarson As promised, the 1st tweet in (mediocre) Middle Egyptian! (Please excuse the quality of handwriting in both hieroglyphs and English)