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pymundgenealogy.bsky.social

20 October 2026 10:22

Some time at a more reasonable hour in this time zone I need to tell you about the 18th century Ashkenazi traveler who was sure that the ישמעאלים in Eretz Yisrael spoke Arabic and the ערבים spoke Aramaic, because be recognized words in the latter's speech

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shjsat.bsky.social

17 October 2026 06:53

Given that it's found in a few dialects, maybe the older form was ənglēzi all over this area (from Hindi or Persian or something) and then it was supplanted by the Standard Arabic form in C/M but not J

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shjsat.bsky.social

17 October 2026 06:45

In Standard Arabic, إنجليزي 'English' is vocalized إِنجلِيزِيّ inglīziyy. But I learned it as inglēzī. Bahraini dialects inglēzī, ingrēzī, & even ʕangrēzī! The last two variants seem to come from Hindi, where the word is अंग्रेज़ aṅgrez; ultimately, the Hindi word apparently comes from Portuguese.

Toponyms of Latakia - Toponym 30 SṬĀMO Village to the southeast of Latakia city. Suggested by van Soldt & others to be the Ugaritic town ʔilištamʕu ('the god has heard'), though he gives no explanation in his book as to how it ended up with this modern pronunciation.

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shjsat.bsky.social

15 October 2026 12:27

The real reason I am working on Dutch is because it gives me an opportunity to flex my uvular trill [ʀ], which is not found in other languages that I speak.