Jabal al-Lughat
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| Blog Name: | Jabal al-Lughat |
| Url: | http://lughat.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Linguistics, Maghreb |
| Description: | This blog is written at irregular intervals by Lameen Souag, currently studying linguistics at SOAS. |
| Popularity: | 3 Followers |
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Songhay and Nilo-Saharan
| Following up on the preceding post, I've been looking at Greenberg's (1966) Nilo-Saharan comparisons - specifically, the 29 ones involving Songhay that have reflexes in Kwarandzyey, the Songhay lan...more |
Arabic loanwords in "proto-Nilo-Saharan"
| Ehret 2001 (or see Nostratic.ru) looks at first sight like an astonishingly detailed reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan, with nice binary splits and loads of technology-related words for archeologists ...more |
Why would "qaswarah" be claimed to be Ethiopic?
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In the Qur'ān, 74:51, an interesting word occurs:{ كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ } * { فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍ }ka'annahum ħumurun mustanfirah * farrat min qaswarahAs if they were wild donkeys. ...more |
Ibn Hazm again, and Cypriot Arabic
| I just found a full translation online of the fifth chapter of Ibn Hazm's 11th-century work Iħkām fī Uṣūl al-Aħkām, discussed previously - a chapter remarkable for anticipating the ideas of a lang...more |
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