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ד-פּאַקס"Whenever the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#playwright</a> Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraqi</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jew</a> and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed <a href="https://babka.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> community and its vanishing language, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Judeo</a>-Iraqi <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a>.The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish <a href="https://babka.social/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#refugees</a> who came separately to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> with their families during periods of persecution for the community in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baghdad</a>, Ellis is moved to seek out <a href="https://babka.social/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stories</a>, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture</a>

Dirk<a href="https://chaos.social/@HonkHase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HonkHase</a> Yeah, I have to admit, this doesn't come to me with any surprise. <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> has contracts with <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> and military contractors, therefor it shouldn't be surprising, that any <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> in their <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/portfolio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#portfolio</a> is open for sale, especially the dual-use ones. 😕 What surprised me in the last weeks, that <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> family clans in <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> protested loud enough against Hamas, that (at least first) Al Jazeera ignored it, while international outlets seemed to pick it up. But the <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/worst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worst</a> in my humble opinion that I didn't notice any loud response out of the other Arabic countries to support these protests, yet. I think this is equally irresponsible, as it looks like the definition of "collateral damage" the IDF takes into account on the behalf of the <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#israel</a> government.This whole <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/shitshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shitshow</a> there is straining my tolerance for ambiguity to the max.

Persona 🎭Even if it’s Arabic alphabet, is it Arabic or Farsi language please ? <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/askfediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askfediverse</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/askmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askmastodon</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Benjamin SuchardRethinking Proto-SemiticThis week, I was stoked to attend a workshop in Marburg, Germany, entitled “Rethinking Proto-Semitic” and organized by profs Stefan Weninger and Michael Waltisberg. Despite some cancellations, the workshop had an amazing lineup of speakers—and a terrific atmosphere. Here’s my summary of the talks.Leonid Kogan, “What can we learn from Eblaite on Proto-Semitic morphology?” Ongoing study and decipherment of the 24th-century BCE East Semitic language from Ebla, Syria shows the following features that are interesting for reconstruction:<ol><li>personal pronouns: independent 1sg. /ʔanā/, 1pl. /nuḥnū/, 2m.sg. /ʔatta/, 2m.pl. /ʔattunu/, 3m.sg. /suwa/, 3f.sg. /siya/; suffixed 1du. /-nay/, 1pl. /-nu/, 2du. /-kumay(n)/, 3du. /-sumay(n)/</li><li>3m.pl. prefix conjugation /ti-…-ū/</li><li>t-perfect, as in Mesopotamian Akkadian</li><li>autobenefactive use of the ventive /-am/</li><li>no subjunctive marker -u, unlike Mesopotamian Akkadian (this is big)</li><li>t-stem infinitives with both prefixation and infixation, like dar-da-bí-tum /tartappidum/ ‘to roam here and there’, cf. ra-ba-tum /rapādum/ ‘to roam’</li><li>nominal oblique “masculine” plural ending /-ay/, as reconstructed for Sargonic Akkadian and Assyrian and compatible with Babylonian; unlike Central Semitic *-ī-na</li><li>singular case endings preserved in the construct state and before pronominal suffixes, e.g. ba-lu da-a-tim /baʕlu daʕātim/ ‘owner of knowledge (nom.)’, me-gi-ru12-zu /migrusu/ ‘his favourite (nom.)’</li><li>productive use of terminative *-is, e.g. DU-ti-iš /halaktis/ ‘for the journey’</li><li>‘twenty’ with -ū vowel like Central Semitic, not -ā like other languages</li></ol>Maria Bulakh, “Intercalated *a as a plural marker in Soqotri and its implications for the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic”. While superficially hard to recognize (and Jorik and I didn’t attempt to in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/47400828/_Northwest_Semitic_sg_CVCC_pl_CVCaC_%C5%AB_Broken_plural_or_regular_reflex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our paper on this subject</a>), reconstruction of Modern South Arabian and especially Soqotri attest insertion of *-a- between the second and third radical of *CVCC- nouns in the plural. No external plural suffix though.Me, “Rethinking the Proto-Semitic stative”. Slides <a href="https://www.academia.edu/128593001/Rethinking_the_Proto_Semitic_stative" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. Got some good suggestions for languages where I could go looking for a synchronic distinction between resultative *qatal-a and preterit *ya-qtul.Me presenting. The audience was bigger than it looks here, although not much (around 15 people).Ahmad Al-Jallad, “Revisiting the post-verbal morphemes *-u and *-n(V) in Semitic: a proposal for a unified theory”. The different verbal suffixes/enclitics shaped like -u and -n(V) in Akkadian, Central Semitic possibly Modern South Arabian, and Gurage (South Abyssinian) could all descend from the Proto-Semitic *=u(m) locative, which gained various subordinating and durative meanings. Central Semitic *ya-qtul-u instead of *ya-qattal-u for the imperfect could show a collapse in the distinction between *ya-qtul and *ya-qattal related to the rise of the West Semitic perfect *qatal-a.Michael Waltisberg, “Issues of reconstructive methodology in Semitics”. Based on his review of Rebecca Hasselbach(-Andee)’s 2013 Case in Semitic, Waltisberg discussed some methodological questions like whether our reconstructed Proto-Semitic represents an actually spoken language or just maps correspondences between different languages and whether there is room for dialectal diversity and different chronological stages within a protolanguage. (Prof. Hasselbach-Andee sadly had to cancel her planned attendance.)Lutz Edzard, “Linguistic divergence and convergence in Arabic and Semitic revisited”. As the most protolanguage-sceptic scholar at the workshop, Edzard reviewed some of his problems with the linear-descent-only family tree model where every language in a family descends from a kind of ancestral singularity with no internal diversity.Vera Tsukanova, “What can modern Arabic dialects reveal about the etymology of the L-stem in Semitic?” The development of the L-stem (*qātal-) in historical Arabic suggests that it is more likely that this stem originally had a concrete meaning like applicative that was bleached in some languages than that it was originally vague and acquired its specific meaning in pre-Arabic.Eran Cohen, “Semitic k-based similative particles—comparative and diachronic aspects”. Different Semitic particles starting with k- can be diachronically related to each other according to recognized historical pathways of development.Na’ama Pat-El, “Homomorphs and reconstruction”. We are probably not dealing with one, syncretic morpheme but rather two homophonous ones in the cases of 1) prefix conjugation 2m.sg./3f.sg. *t-; (2) f.sg. abstract noun/m.pl. adjective suffix *-ūt-; (3) f.sg. noun or adjective/weak root verbal noun or infinitive suffix *-t-. In the latter, most controversial case, Pat-El invoked some evidence that the verbal nouns like Biblical Hebrew šéḇeṯ ‘sitting’ (from y-š-b) are syntactically masculine (e.g. Ps 133:1).Stefan Weninger, “The Semitic Urheimat question: a review of the proposals and some perspectives”. An overview of some proposed points of dispersal for the Semitic languages since the late 19th century, the main contenders being the Arabian peninsula and East and North Africa. In the Q&A, Kogan added his own suggestion, published in an Encyclopedia Aethiopica article: Canaan.Walter Sommerfeld, “The concept of a common Semitic cultural area (‘Kish Civilization’) in the 3rd millennium”. Contemporary evidence shows that there is no basis for Ignace Gelb’s concept of a distinctly Semitic culture in Early Dynastic northern Babylonia.Apart from these talks, we spent about half the time in unstructured panel discussions, on phonology, morphology, methodology, and classification/Urheimat questions. Each discussion was kicked off by a short, stimulating talk, mostly by attendees who did not present full papers: Martin Kümmel, Michaël Cysouw, and Aaron Rubin. This was an experimental feature of the workshop, and I’m on the fence about it; the discussions were certainly fun and a lot of interesting points were brought up (e.g. Kogan: linguistic paleontology shows that Proto-Semitic speakers did know hyraxes but did not know oryxes, and only Canaan is [+hyrax][-oryx]), but it felt like they yielded fewer concrete insights than regular talks would have. It was a nice way to get some more people involved, though, also from adjacent fields (Indo-European/Indo-Iranian and Caucasian/Germanic linguistics).All in all, it was wonderful to be able to fully geek out about Proto-Semitic and its daughters for a couple of days. There’s plans to publish proceedings, so hopefully in a few years you’ll be able to read all about these topics in full detail. Stay tuned.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/akkadian/" target="_blank">#Akkadian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/arabic/" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/berber/" target="_blank">#Berber</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/conference/" target="_blank">#conference</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/east-cushitic/" target="_blank">#EastCushitic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/eblaite/" target="_blank">#Eblaite</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/egyptian/" target="_blank">#Egyptian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/gurage/" target="_blank">#Gurage</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/hebrew/" target="_blank">#Hebrew</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/linguistics/" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/modern-south-arabian/" target="_blank">#ModernSouthArabian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/proto-semitic/" target="_blank">#ProtoSemitic</a>

FID Nahost<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/CatchOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchOfTheDay</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/MENAdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MENAdoc</a>: "Humor in der arabischen Kultur" von Georges Tamer (Ed.)[Berlin [u.a.], 2009]<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/112843" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/112843</a><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/aprilfools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aprilfools</a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/aprilfoolsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aprilfoolsday</a>

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)👉 We did a thing, and I wrote about it: At the beginning of February, we held a transcription sprint for <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> to train an <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/ATR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATR</a> model in Transkribus. Read about what we did and how we did it on our project blog on <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Hypotheses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hypotheses</a>: <a href="https://dsenetwork.hypotheses.org/749" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dsenetwork.hypotheses.org/749</a> Yes, we know there are excellent ATR models for Arabic out there; they're just not available on <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Transkribus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transkribus</a>, and that is the platform researchers here at <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/UniOslo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniOslo</a> prefer.

oplatzunited<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asylum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asylum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/refugeerights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#refugeerights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linoldruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linoldruck</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linolprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linolprinting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oplatz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oplatz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oplatzlebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oplatzlebt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oplatzunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oplatzunited</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b2703" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#b2703</a>

Fedi.Garden 🌱Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.:Fediverse: <a href="https://arabi.gay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arabi.gay</a>You can find out more at <a href="https://arabi.gay/about" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arabi.gay/about</a> or contact the admin <a href="https://arabi.gay/@ishraaf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ishraaf</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Arab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arab</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/SWANA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SWANA</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gay</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Arabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabs</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/NorthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthAfrica</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/SouthWestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthWestAsia</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Glitch</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/GlitchMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlitchMastodon</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeFediverse</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#العربية</a>

Dining & Cookinga clever blend of Arabic and Mediterranean cuisine <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1973338/a-clever-blend-of-arabic-and-mediterranean-cuisine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/1973338/a-clever-blend-of-arabic-and-mediterranean-cuisine/</a> #<a href="https://vive.im/tags/eats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eats</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#food</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodAndDrink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodAndDrink</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Habbibi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Habbibi</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ManchesterRestaurants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManchesterRestaurants</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Mediterranean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mediterranean</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MediterraneanCuisine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediterraneanCuisine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#review</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/reviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reviews</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/sponsored" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sponsored</a>

Arthur LaprayeCan anyone recommend me books about arabic dialectology and historical linguistics of arabic languages/dialects ? <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/semiticlanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#semiticlanguages</a>

millerebonds<a href="https://mastodon.social/@wonshu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wonshu</a> There is a good alternative, I can help to make advocacy for that lol. It's Chinese numbers of course!!! The best numbers. And the sign for zero is far better because of poetic, it speaks about rain 零 <a href="https://improvemandarin.com/chinese-numbers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://improvemandarin.com/chinese-numbers/</a> Even though I like Arabic. The problem is we must use real original Arabic numbers. To make fascists crazy: ٠, ١, ٢, ٣, ٤, ٥, ٦, ٧, ٨, ٩. We must be creative :)<a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinese</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/antifascisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifascisme</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/fuckracism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fuckracism</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/antiracisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiracisme</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/antiracism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiracism</a>

Dorothea LangeEmployment office on Howard Street. San Francisco, California <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/HowardStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowardStreet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/RanchCook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RanchCook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/ItalianChalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ItalianChalk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Acker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acker</a>-FullString <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/RoastBeef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoastBeef</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/SanFranciscos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanFranciscos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/undefined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#undefined</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/DorotheaLange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DorotheaLange</a> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769699/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017769699/</a>

CaryNice piece on Mashrou Leila <a href="https://pridesource.com/article/mashrou-leila" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pridesource.com/article/mashrou-leila</a><Like an old friend, Sinno’s voice greets me from my morning alarm, threading between sensuality and grief, between command and confession. Mashrou’ Leila’s music acknowledges the looming brutality of the world, yet invites us, just for a moment, to set that burden down./><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/MashouLeila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MashouLeila</a>

Benjamin SuchardLeiden Summer School 2025The program for this year’s <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/summer-schools/summer-school-in-languages-and-linguistics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics</a> is up. Besides the Caucasian, Chinese, Language Description, Language Documentation, Indo-European (I/II), Celtic, Indology, Iranian, Linguistics (I/II), Mediterranean World, and Russian tracks, here’s the line-up for Semitic this year:<ul><li>An introduction to Arabic paleography and epigraphy (Ahmad Al-Jallad)</li><li>Comparative Semitics (Marijn van Putten with guest lectures by me and maybe others)</li><li>Rabbinic Hebrew (Martin Baasten)</li><li>Classical Ethiopic (Martin Baasten)</li></ul>Registration opens soon! The Summer School will run from July 21st through August 1st.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/arabic/" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/geez/" target="_blank">#GeEz</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/hebrew/" target="_blank">#Hebrew</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/linguistics/" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/proto-semitic/" target="_blank">#ProtoSemitic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/tag/rabbinic/" target="_blank">#Rabbinic</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1902745/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1902745/</a> Iraq, Sweden move towards reopening Swedish… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AndTurkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndTurkish</a>. <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/kurdish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kurdish</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nyheter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nyheter</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublishingInEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublishingInEnglish</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Sverige" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sverige</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sweden</a>

h o ʍ l e t t→ Israel developing ChatGPT-like tool that weaponizes surveillance of Palestinians <a href="https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/</a>“[…] Unit 8200’s <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chatbot</a> has been trained on 100 billion words of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> obtained in part through <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a>’s large-scale <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> of <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinians</a> under the rule of its <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> — which experts warn constitutes a severe violation of Palestinian <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rights</a>. “We are talking about highly personal information, taken from <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#people</a> who are not suspected of any crime […]”<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Arab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arab</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/ModernArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ModernArt</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/artworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artworks</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/CulturalHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalHeritage</a> 'al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has released five newly digitized archival collections, which are now accessible online. Part of the Arab Art Archive initiative, these materials extend the global availability of primary research documents on modern Arab art hosted through NYU Libraries’ archival collections portal. '<a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/657765/arab-art-archive-releases-five-digitized-collections/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/657765/arab-art-archive-releases-five-digitized-collections/</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1880267/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1880267/</a> Oil producers welcome Rubio’s efforts to restart… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AndTurkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndTurkish</a>. <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrudeOil</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrudeOilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrudeOilPrice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/kurdish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kurdish</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPrice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#petroleum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublishingInEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublishingInEnglish</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RudawIsABroadcastAndDigitalNewsNetworkBasedInTheKurdistanRegionOfIraq</a>

Obsidian Urbex Photography📷 Rose House, LebanonThe Rose House is a once-grand palace in <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lebanon</a>. Its name echoes the magnificent roses that previously flourished in the now-disused gardens.The <a href="https://photog.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> combines traditional <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Ottoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ottoman</a> characteristics with more Western influences. The main living area is typical of historic Lebanese buildings, high ceilings and an internal triple-arch arcade leading to a balcony. <a href="https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/residential/rose-house-lebanon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/residential/rose-house-lebanon/</a><a href="https://photog.social/tags/AbandonedPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/UrbanExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrbanExploration</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Urbex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Urbex</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/TripleArch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TripleArch</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a>

Martin Owens :inkscape:It might have taken an ungodly amount of time. But getting these corner cases right in this PDF export is going to mean the world to a lot of people.Arabic and Hebrew and non messing up the glyphs.<a href="https://floss.social/tags/inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inkscape</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/pdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdf</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/cmyk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cmyk</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arabic</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unicode</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#text</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/glyphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glyphs</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/hewbrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hewbrew</a>

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