LangShack

A US linguist dev specialized in rare and agglutinative languages. Sharing my personal observations on languages. Making ALL rare languages accessible.

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Updated LangShack details:
IG: @langshack
GitHub code for LangShack projects and apps: wmsimmons
Facebook: langshack
Patreon: ..com/langshack

[Sā́mapriyaḣ སཱམཔྲིཡཿ @avzaagzonunaada]

I know not if you are aware, but there is a big Chuvash grammar in Chuvash.

[LanguageCrawler @LanguageCrawler]

Security at the Louvre

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@iwsfutcmd me in Puerto Rico

[History With Hilbert 🇳🇱🇺🇦 @HistorywHilbert]

New research shows more young parents are raising their children in Frisian than parents of previous generations 🔥🔥🔥

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@iwsfutcmd The paper isn’t edible? Ahhhh man , darn it!! 🤣

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fiicanyahay … my favorite word (so far)

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Once I learn a few more US indigenous languages, I wanna pick up Somali and at least finish the Colloquial Somali course … I just love how that language sounds 🤤

[Nissehatt @hekwoys]

@avzaagzonunaada In spoken Danish (approximation) this is pronounced “konlugi lilmew enfamasjotn”

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Louisiana had so much French programming in the 70s.. most US indigenous languages had dozens of speakers at that time.. it ticks me off that there was no funding for THEIR broadcasting.. now we have to work from scratch with no speakers .. at least it’s possible to revive em…

[Sā́mapriyaḣ སཱམཔྲིཡཿ @avzaagzonunaada]

I’ve mentioned this before, but my roommate for one of the grad school years was a West Frisian zoölogist. So, even though I didn’t keep up my studies (like so many other wonderful languages 😔), West Frisian is the first language I tried to learn “fieldworkingly”.

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I don’t care how good AI ever gets. A good quality conversation with a human being will always be great and you always learn from people who have different opinions than you. I always learn something from everyone new I talk to.. even those I know like my brother.

[LanguageCrawler @LanguageCrawler]

Over 4000 pages of Dutch Syntax (7 books) (pdf files):
Syntax of Dutch:
Verbs and Verb Phrases Volume 1: https://t.co/Qg2Gpl7XUr\
Verbs Volume 2: https://t.co/Lx1lYwsbI7
Verbs Volume 3: https://t.co/wpylGW2xMx
Nouns and Noun Phrases Volume 1: https://t.co/VgGtvKKzrl
Nouns Volume 2: https://t.co/0t6PkZLh9m
Adjectives: https://t.co/Xof5ShpWVq
Coordination and Ellipsis: https://t.co/NGk4GlQO4f
Books in Print: https://t.co/TSRhfRFk1q

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[iwsfutcmd will see you at VC5 @iwsfutcmd]

for the life of me i can't figure out why people travel in Central Asia and don't at least learn to read Cyrillic

an Israeli guy i had dinner with last night was like "you know what i miss? shawarma" and we were right around the corner from a restaurant with a massive sign that said "ШАУРМА"

[Sā́mapriyaḣ སཱམཔྲིཡཿ @avzaagzonunaada]

It’s sad how vocab gets lost unless you regularly use a language. If you asked me a few minutes ago what the word for ‘gums’ is in Hindi, I’d not have been able to answer. But I’ve known masūṛā since I was a child. Just that I haven’t used any Hindi in close to a decade now, ...

[iwsfutcmd will see you at VC5 @iwsfutcmd]

easiest way to determine this is looking at linguistic diversity. any place where there's traditionally extremely high linguistic diversity indicates areas where small groups of humans are self-sufficient, hence some of the ideal territory for humans to live

[Jacob King 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (Comms Open) @jacobpking]

The Maya script is so genuinely stunning. Its art AND writing at the same time. Ugh its so peak

[Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐲𐑄𐐲𐑉𐑌-𐐺𐐫𐑉𐑌) @neilalexanderw1]

(1/20) Here's the HUGE news for Chhé'ee Fókaa (Northeastern Pomo): I have been working on a dictionary of the language for 11 years, and earlier this year I declared my draft complete. To my knowledge, I had found every written example of the language as spoken by fluent speakers

[Joseph Chenard @joe_chenard]

The Ethio-Semitic languages have many fascinating examples of lexical replacement where the original lexeme/root was not completely lost but was rather relegated to a very restricted distribution or construction.
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[REN @Renn_on_twtt]

@PicturesFoIder 1965 Shelby Daytona coupe