#Vowel

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

There's so much bad-ass beauty in Mexican Spanish. I've written about some of it in "Mexican X-plainer" threads & Medium articles.One of my favorite things about my dialect is an

Evan (very tired)

evantessuraea

I played around with a voice training app - it really just analyzes vocal pitch - and found it pretty interesting. I know my spoken vocal pitch pretty well -

matt🍍

matt_boot_

my next on #EgyptianArabic sound laws is about the epenthetic vowel /i/ that pops up between consonants under very specific conditions.if you don't know what i'm talking about, keep

Arbaab Eujayl | ⲁⲣⲡⲁ̄ⲡ ⲓⳝⲉ̄ⲗ

HatimAlTai2

A lot of people (altbeit not nearly enough) know that Nubian has an ancient script that language activists still use to write the language: what is less known, however, is

Uwe Edelheit (no, that's not my real name)

dietweeterei

1/ Have you ever wondered which of #Tolkien’s invented writing systems is used by the #Hobbits? This is a question I repeatedly get asked. Let’s have a look… #TolkienFriday 2/

Fred MacDowell

onthemainline

@SeforimChatter sent me this interesting English from his copy of Benedetto Frizzi's Pesah Enayim (Livorno, 1878):"The Pheuix. Revival of scurce and valualbe pieces no Where to be found but in

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

A thread on hamzah spellings. This is a topic where I see there is a lot of confusion because people project modern spelling conventions onto the pre-modern period and then

Anonymous Seeker

mysql_sync

#Thread #Encryption_In_Ancient_IndiaGrahacaraṇibandhana Based In The Year 683 CE And Laghubhaskariyavivarana Based In The Year 869 CE Speak Of A Certain Numerical Notation Which Goes By The Name @Sanjay_Dixit @VandanaJayrajan @agniveer

Grant Boone

grantboone

Postscript from the #USWomensOpen: 1. I cover women's golf for a living but there were 40 players in the field I'd never met. Scrambling to double check pronunciations, the last

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Confirmation Bias and Investing How this behavioral fallacy affects your investing decisions/THREAD/ 1/ Confirmation bias is a behavioral fallacy from the field of cognitive psychology.It is attributed to people

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/6) Why does superspreading occur?There are likely many reasons, but one intriguing possibility is some people might be biologically predisposed to release more aerosols when they speak.This study shows that

saara paambu

itssadgurrll

Learn Tamil with me: a thread There are 12 vowel letters/uyirl ezhuthukkal (soul letters) அ/a ஆ/aa இ/e ஈ/ee உ/u ஊ/uu எ/ae ஏ/aee ஐ/ai ஒ/o ஓ/o: ஓள/ow There are 18 consonant

Gareth Roberts would love to be vaccinated

garicgymro

A fun bit of historical linguistics as we think of relatives who can and can’t be with us in the holiday season: The Welsh for uncle is ewythr. Do you

Maarten Kossmann

ait_kisou

Amazigh (Berber) languages are quite close to each other and in most places nearby varieties are mutually intelligible. They function like a discontinuous dialect continuum.A loooong thread with maps (and

Indigenous Climate

Indigenous_ca

THREAD - Solidarity: Indigenous and Migrant Justice. In collaboration with @MWACCanada (1/9) #StatusForAll #IndigenousRights #Solidarity #MigrantJustice #LandBack Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC

Benjamin Suchard

bnuyaminim

#HappyHanukkah ! Thought I'd do some tweets on #Semitic numerals, starting with one and seeing how many nights it lasts.As argued by Aren Wilson-Wright, Proto-Semitic for 'one' was *ʕast-. *waħad-

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