Language Studies
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Thinking about Chinese studies in the Second Cold War, the problem of not understanding, and so on, I wondered how many students were studying Russian at the height of the Cold War...
Sibawayh (d. 796), was a renowned Persian grammarian of the Arabic language. His famous unnamed work, referred to as "Al-Kitāb" or "The Book", is a five-volume seminal discussion o...
1/ A 🧵on a great article from @GabrielSaidR . A useful study of Kasani’s view on what Qur’an is. However, I wish to nitpick on a couple of points: 1) how Kasani’s view relates to t...
This was one of the best topics in African Literature 400. Our lecturer, Dr. Mutie, explained it so well. There were three arguments. Chinua Achebe was of the opinion to take the c...
“The Koran (Qur'ān) was also a linguistic document of incomparable importance. It was viewed as a source of grammatical and lexicographical information. Its stylistic inimitability...
Why Read The Bible In Hebrew? Let's talk about the most famous murder in human history—the story of Cain and Abel. In order to understand it, we'll need to unpack one of the most...
The Khotanese language was the successor of older East Iranic shaka language. A major bauddha text in it has come down to us in fragments: the book of Zambasta. It mentions the inv...
Underrated modern 🇮🇳 Muslim figure: Muhammad Hamidullah [1908-2002] Wrote 100s of books & 1000s of articles directly in 5 different languages (Urdu, Arabic, English, German & Fren...
The Masonic (G) 🧵 In the English Alphabet, G is the Seventh Letter but the letter "G" or Gamma in Greek and in the Semitic Tongues (Gimel) is not Seventh but the Third Letter. "G"...
The differences between the Anatolian languages and the rest of Indo-European have been recruited to suggest that Anatolian and the rest of PIE should be taken as sister branches o...
1) India has 2 Major language families— Indo-Aryan & Dravidian. Their origins are definitely different but having grown up together they’ve common history. Also they’ve similar gr...
The Absolute Minimum a Student of Knowledge Should Memorise: First thing is the Qur'an. This should be a given. After that: Nahw: Nadhm al Ajurrūmiyyah by Al Shinqītī (150 lines...
Jakob Jakobsen's "An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland", published in two vols in 1928 & 1932, still stands as the unrivalled source book of information on t...
I think it’s right we should look for lexical correspondences between IE and S in Caucasian languages but both these are explicable as borrowings from IE to semitic. https://t.co/Q...
Garzoni's "Grammatica e vocabolario della lingua kurda", printed by the Propaganda Fide in Rome in 1787, was the first printed grammar of the Kurdish language and the first descrip...
Great thread! But I partly get the gripes of the Hindus here We are emotionally invested in Sanskrit as the great liturgical language + carrier of Indian intellectual traditions...
Researchers studying regionalism and diversity in Russia produced tons of great books on Caucasus but very few on Volga region. This is by far the best book on Tatarstan that I kno...
George Orwell explored the power of language to shape our thinking, including the power of deliberately sloppy language to distort thought. He explored these concerns not only in h...
After I took up research & study on Hindu temples, I found some excellent ancient texts with only "Hindi translation". Had I not been familiar with Hindi reading, I cannot fathom t...
@Hanoonah Thanks Hanan for this question that got me to look up some of Stolorow’s writings that I had not read in a long while. To my knowledge he hasn’t provided an operational d...
A discussion on Hittite texts and relationships to Greek tradition, something Bachvarova has been pushing. https://t.co/JVcOcT4K5Y
Does language shape thought? Do the languages we speak affect how we live our lives? In a forthcoming article in Language, I revisit one of the oldest debates in the social science...
How a Kiwi woman revealed the slavish mindset of secular Hindus. 1. Flaxen haired Robyn is an amazing 20something. A noble soul whom Saraswati, Lakshmi and Aphrodite have blessed,...
How reliable is Sir Jadunath Sarkar's work as concerns Maratha history ? Not very reliable. His knowledge of Persian and English was excellent, Marathi not much. In fact he lea...
