language ark @language_ark

Language and culture enthusiast. Learning: classical nahuatl, middle egyptian, turkish, hurrian, & more. Any pronouns. For german politics see: @ARCHE_tweetet Joined January 2022

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language ark @language_ark

3 years ago

„Ubu in chains“, the third part of Alfred Janrys grandious dadaist plays about the character King Ubu already starts hilariously: I uploaded the english translation of each book here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

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language ark @language_ark

3 years ago

Early constructed #language ( #conlang #history) books.google.de/books?id=U0pUA… “Prospectus or a few words about a universal, for the purpose of the prevention of accidentically being buried alive, communication language“ (roughly original syntax) … surprisingly not written by Ed Poe.

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language ark @language_ark

3 years ago

#Abaza #language tongue-twister: h-qḳ-χ-bq̇ʷəl-ḳ From: academia.edu/37552564/THE_N… Abaza is a language from the northwest caucasian language family, known for their complex, polysynthetic agglutinating verbs… and their very rich consonant inventories.

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language ark @language_ark

3 years ago

a language is a dialect with an army.

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language ark @language_ark

4 years ago

Im on hiatus because of exams. But how about a small #language treat of the day anyway? The pretty agglutinative sahidic #coptic verb conjugation. I tried my hands at this lang lately (after having studied middle #egyptian) and boy its easy to learn a language with > 3 resources.

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language ark @language_ark

4 years ago

The neat etymology of the dual/plural number suffixes for human relationship nouns in the #uralic #language „Tundra Nenets“ Grammar pdf: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/18…

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Incunabula @incunabula

4 years ago

This Bamum map is notable for its east-west orientation, the exaggerated size of the royal capital (and its placement at its center). It shows rivers in purple, mountains in green, and two purple and red disks signifying the rising (bottom disk) and setting sun (top disk). 11/

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language ark @language_ark

4 years ago

Just an #egyptian deity (and his name in hieroglyphs and transcription) passing by: The snake #god Nehebkau, Spell 87 from the Book of The Dead.

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language ark @language_ark

4 years ago

The day, #books stopped the use of initials and ornamented #calligraphy was a loss to us all. From the "Mira Calligraphiae": ajl.smugmug.com/Books-Manuscri…