The distribution of <dʾ> particle in Ḥimyarite inscription is mostly in the Tihāmah where the ḤBŠT settled and mixed with the locals. The negator also appears in an Aksumite inscription (RIÉ 192) containing other unique linguistic features of a language ancestral to Təgre-Dahālik spoken in Adulis.

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You know those nice and regular French verbs you get taught first, such as ‘parler’ (to speak) and ‘dîner’ (to dine)? Well, they used to be quite irregular! Not ‘je parle’, but ‘je parole’. Not ‘il dîne’, but ‘il desjune’. My 2 graphics will tell you how regular verbs became irregular – and back!

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It also helps that Dr. Garaoun is a very good specialist of Berber linguistics, so he knows what he’s doing from that point of view, while many others just gathered words from Berber dictionaries

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« De la divergence du français mitchif : le cas des marqueurs de conséquence » par Davy Bigot et Robert Papen (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Cool: “A new survey of Canadian English: Fifty years of language change” by Charles Boberg, Claire Henderson and Jackson Mundie (June ’26) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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