https://lughat.blogspot.com/2005/07/negative-convergence.html
Jabal al-Lughat: Negative convergence
Among the many shared characteristics that make the Maghreb proper (Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco north of the Atlas Mountains) a linguistic...
allughatnegativeconvergence
https://zabanoadab.gcuf.edu.pk/index.php/1/article/view/113/128
View of ILMI URDU LUGHAT (JAAMAY) AND PRINCIPLES OF LEXICOGRAPHY
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2011/10/songhay-online.html
Jabal al-Lughat: Songhay online
The Northern Songhay family is of some general interest, both for the study of language contact - all its members are astonishingly strongly...
allughatsonghayonline
https://lughat.blogspot.com/2016/03/school-in-language-you-dont-speak.html?showComment=1459616505111
Jabal al-Lughat: School in a language you don't speak
When I was six years old, I started first grade in a small Algerian city, right after having done kindergarten in the US and forgotten most ...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2014/03/random-darja-notes.html?showComment=1399911336275
Jabal al-Lughat: Random Darja notes
I'm currently on a short break in Dellys, which is providing many incidental opportunities for linguistic observation. Here are a few, rand...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2008/05/african-influence-on-native-nicaraguan.html
Jabal al-Lughat: African influence on native Nicaraguan languages!
...and I bet that got your attention, if you're the sort of person who reads this blog. Ulwa is a language native to the eastern highlands o...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2018/03/
Jabal al-Lughat: March 2018
Climbing the Mountain of Languages
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2010/02/
Jabal al-Lughat: February 2010
Climbing the Mountain of Languages
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2007/03/tamazight-berber-proverbs-of-tipasa.html
Jabal al-Lughat: Tamazight (Berber) proverbs of Tipasa
The second part of the book I discussed in my previous post is more immediately relevant to linguists: it is a collection of more than 150 ...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-levantine-is-arabic-not-aramaic_11.html
Jabal al-Lughat: Why "Levantine" is Arabic, not Aramaic: Part 3
We've seen that historical linguists decide which languages share a more recent common ancestor on the basis of shared innovations (or their...
allughatlevantine
https://lughat.blogspot.com/
Jabal al-Lughat
Climbing the Mountain of Languages
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2014/03/random-darja-notes.html?showComment=1396355915268
Jabal al-Lughat: Random Darja notes
I'm currently on a short break in Dellys, which is providing many incidental opportunities for linguistic observation. Here are a few, rand...
allughatrandomdarjanotes
https://lughat.blogspot.com/2018/12/language-attitudes-around-paris-vignette.html
Jabal al-Lughat: Language attitudes around Paris: a vignette
As we reached the stop by the supermarket the other day, I told my son in English "Now we're getting off the bus." This caught the attentio...
allughatlanguageattitudesaround
https://lughat.blogspot.com/2013/12/does-arabic-have-most-words-dont.html?showComment=1554418211685
Jabal al-Lughat: Does Arabic have the most words? Don't believe the hype.
For some time, I've been hearing rumours (from Arabs, of course) that Arabic has the largest number of words of any language. Recently I fo...
https://lughat.blogspot.com/2019/09/c-s-lewis-criterion-for-prescriptivism.html?showComment=1567975697721
Jabal al-Lughat: C. S. Lewis' criterion for prescriptivism
Prescriptivism - it's what linguists love to hate, and not without reason. So much of it is just a thin veil stretched over social prejudic...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2014/06/
Jabal al-Lughat: June 2014
Climbing the Mountain of Languages
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2017/09/
Jabal al-Lughat: September 2017
Climbing the Mountain of Languages
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2009/10/arabic-loanwords-in-proto-nilo-saharan.html
Jabal al-Lughat: 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 spli...
allughatarabicloanwordsproto
https://lughat.blogspot.com/2016/06/language-contact-in-sahara-overview.html?showComment=1466193661083
Jabal al-Lughat: Language Contact in the Sahara: An overview
I am very happy to announce the publication of my freely accessible overview of Language Contact in the Sahara , written for the Oxford Rese...
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https://lughat.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-arabic.html?showComment=1460872623327
Jabal al-Lughat: g in Arabic
A belated Eid Mubarak and Happy New Year to all my readers! This post is brought to you by the letter G - a sound all too common in many lan...
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