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Punic was a variety of Phoenician spoken in North Africa btw 8th C BC & 6th C AD. It’s attested mainly in inscriptions most of which are repetitive, giving limited
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This inspired me to write a quick thread on what Atiqa Hachimi calls ‘the Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology’ aka how not all Arabic dialects are seen equal and especially how Mashreqi
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Yes-no questions have a rising intonation in many languages, some of which have a question marker in addition, like Chinese ma 吗. In Tunisian, this rising intonation is accompanied by
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I tend to focus on Tunisia when I post about Punic so today’s thread is on Leptis Magna (Greater Leptis)
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The preposition fī “in” in Tunisian is not really an object marker but a progressive marker. Used before the object of a verb, it means ongoing action like English -ing
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A Tunisian Judeo-Arabic text and a few comments on it: The text on the image is the announcement of the Ghriba pilgrimage, the Lag Ba-Omer celebration that happens yearly
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