яཀོب 半男

Mostly historical linguistics. Main focus right now is Nuristani (Katë). Otherwise Afroasiatic and everything from Tokyo to Timbuktu.

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@avzaagzonunaada Interesting! I recently came across the Torwali word ʐəmos 'musk deer' - with this in mind it now seems likely to me that this is actually a borrowing from Pashto ramusay/rambosay 'musk deer'

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@aryaman2020 Yeah, that would be worth following up on - though I guess few people know enough about both Burushaski dialectology and Nahali + Korku to be able to judge possible comparisons. From what I read, it also seemed that not much is left of the "original" Nahali lexicon

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

My review article of Zoller's "Indo-Aryan and the Linguistic History and Prehistory of North India" is now out in "Kratylos":

https://t.co/S37uibQves

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@aryaman2020 Definitely one of the best quotes from the book! 😄

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

Now out in Bhāṣā (open access): My article on Gāndhārī orthography/phonology and how it relates to the modern Indo-Aryan languages of the far northwest:

https://t.co/GpRioEbm78

[Suresh Kumar @vicitracitta]

New Akkadian dictionary project at Leipzig: https://t.co/MU77P3ZOEr

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@yakabikaj Thank you!

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

Now available for download from the publication server of the University of Cologne:

The revised and expanded version of my dissertation
“A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani)”
https://t.co/4jeTeCHArD

Proper book publication coming a while later.

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@avzaagzonunaada Not really, to be honest, it mostly sounds like American English r to me, not like Arabic 3ayn. Maybe the speakers were looking for a point of comparison for their retroflex approximant because it is not found in the major languages of the region and "found" it in Arabic

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@avzaagzonunaada Also works the other way around: [ɻ] (or [◌]) is spelled with Arabic ع [ʕ] in at least two languages in the Hindu Kush

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

No more excuses. The international community must force Israel to end the occupation.

Responding to the ICJ’s advisory opinion, B'Tselem says:
Over the past 57 years, Israel has demonstrated it has no intention of ending the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem...

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@asumalkish ちゃんとしたって言えるのか分かりませんけれどこれほどはありますね。

https://t.co/KC9tcyhVU4

[Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg @Uni_WUE]

Proto Sarada writings: A new #Indology project @Uni_Wue & @unil is focussing on a hitherto little-researched period of ancient Indian history: the time of transition from #Buddhism to #Hinduism in the northwest of #India. Funded @dfg_public @snf_ch
➡️ https://t.co/Ojl4GTyTRA

[AYMAN @AymanMSNBC]

"What I'm the most scared of is that the President is using us as justification for slaughter. That he's making Jews the face of the American war machine and I want my community to be clear-eyed and consider what that means for us.... it doesn't make us safe." -@LGreenbergCall

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

My contribution to the "Roots of Peristan" conference volume: "Nuristani Theonyms in Light of Historical Phonology" (with some updates and corrections in the margins)
https://t.co/4GkLztKLSz

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@MountainsWe @avzaagzonunaada If it were possible to purchase a PDF version in some way, that would be greatly appreciated! It would be very helpful for my research.

[яཀོب 半男 @BitMalang]

@avzaagzonunaada And all impossible to get outside of Pakistan...

[Critical Theory in Berlin @KTB_Berlin]

Stellungnahme: Wir fordern, dass die Ausladung Nancy Frasers von der Albertus Magnus Professur an der Universität zu Köln zurückgenommen wird. Ihr findet den gesamten Text hier im Thread und auf unserer Webseite: https://t.co/AXUfuQqgkp

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.