New script apps available! Including: Yezidi, Samaritan, and now the iOS version of my Egyptian/Sudanese scripts apps: "Nile Valley Hieroglyphs & More" which includes hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic, old nubian, coptic, and meroitic
Announcing the 17th Biannual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference! The call for papers is open through June 30, 2026. Submit at https://t.co/Iu6VZOgNEZ
November 13-14, 2026
University of New Mexico, Main Campus & online
Stuck at home with the flu and had to cancel my talk at SALSA today on Egyptian SL toponyms— those interested can check out the interactive map of city/governorate names here: https://t.co/7ScK3pbAXi
أنا بدأت سلسلة فيديوهات عن لسانيات لغة الاشارة بالعربي
دا فيديو عن الصواتة (الفونولوجيا)
مدخل إلى الصواتة في لغات الإشارة (الفونولوجيا)
https://t.co/3ubpDpHu4d
For International Day of Sign Languages, a thread of lesser-known facts about sign languages in the Caribbean, based on recent research at @UWI_StAugustine
The Script Encoding Initiative now has a very shiny website with a lot of information about what they do and how they judge readiness for Unicode, as well as a list of unencoded scripts. Here is an explanatory post by director Anushah Hossain:
https://t.co/OvdbfoNahP
The #OldNubian transitive suffix -(ⲓ)ⲣ/ⲁⲣ (an old causative suffix, partially replaced by innovative causative suffix -ⲅⲁⲣ; #nobiin -kir) can be attached to a verbal root to make an intransitive verb transitive. It can also be attached to nominal roots to make verbs.
🇨🇺✨ Historic win for Cuba’s Deaf communities!
Cuban Sign Language is now legally recognised! Huge credit to the Association of the Deaf in Cuba for years of tireless advocacy.
WFD joins in celebrating this milestone! 🎉
#DeafRights#CubanSignLanguage#WFD