Former dual pronoun seen (and heard) in the wild: "enk" in a remote Alpine restaurant. It greets a plural 'you' on this menu, but was originally a dual pronoun for 'you two', cognate with English's lost pronoun inc.

Maybe a good opportunity to drop this ... 🤓 (from the Compendia in Japanese @ HAB, Cod. Guelf. 7.5 Aug. 4°, fol. 400v) (The visible portion of text is from the next section, however, and thus not immediately related to solar eclipses.)

#Chance | Applications open: Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages. Free online classes in 18 Jewish vernacular languages | Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages | 🔗 Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... @ochjs.bsky.social #jewishstudies #JewishLanguages #oxford #languagelearning

See here for the relatively recent (mid-2025?) scan of the Bodleian's copy of the Arte da lingoa de Iapam: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c343... (or see my hand-list bsky.app/profile/schr... for more like this, from Nagasaki and nearby, with some exceptions).

(cries in diacritics 😿)

🔓 Orçun Ünal: A Compendium of Common Turkic–Chuvash Lexical Correspondences with Proto-Turkic Reconstructions, Göttingen University Press 2026 www.scienceopen.com/book?vid=ccd...

A new milestone for #MENAdoc: The "Prints" collection now comprises 12,000 digitized historical printed works. Another step toward providing long-term open access to valuable sources for research and teaching. opendata.uni-halle.de/handle/19811... #openaccess #digitalization

Seven Otafuku https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118433/

We are delighted to announce that applications for our Michaelmas Term 2026 language classes with the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages are now open! For more information visit the OSRJL page on our website: www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-cla... #languagelearning #oxford

Ulrich Unger (ed. Reinhard Emmerich) 2019 Grammatik des Klassischen Chinesisch @ doi.org/10.11588/xab... (OA 🙏)

This new Syriac language learning platform was launched yesterday by @gkiraz.bsky.social with free open access content to get you started! learnsyriac.com #LearnSyriac #languagelearning #startnow

Es gibt eine Neuauflage (Fifth Edition) des großartigen Electronic Beowulf. Bin sehr gespannt, wie es jetzt geworden ist. #Beowulf #OldEnglish #Altenglisch

Chinese Historical Phonology | Guillaume Jacques & Nathan Hill | Leiden Summer School 2026 - 1: youtu.be/CBkjZAfvIBA?... - 2: youtu.be/_4lJmI-ZZ4U?... - 3: youtu.be/x8aKT3TP7Fk?... - 4: youtu.be/76iagbfXlsA?... - 5: youtu.be/kkKo-0VjdKg?...

Old Chinese 1: Chinese Historical Phonology | Guillaume Jacques & Nathan Hill | Leiden 2026

YouTube video by Nathan Hill

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Our new academies project "Biblia Arabica" @biblia-arabica.com is now on Bluesky! Leave a follow and stay up to date with our research on Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. bsky.app/profile/bibl...

New book (Open Access!) - Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials. #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/22312

Let me get this straight: From Sweden, via Finnic, come words for the Rus and Russia. The Mongols turn the Russian term into Oros, to avoid initial /r/. Mandarin Chinese gains this as 俄羅斯 (Éluósī), 俄 for short. Then, due to the Vietnamese reading of the character 俄, 'Russia' in Vietnamese is Nga.

【虎明本とは】江戸時代初めの狂言師・大蔵虎明（1597～1662）が作った、大蔵流の最初の台本。当時の具体的な口語が分かるものとしては、現存最古の狂言台本です。

Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...

Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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Available for free download through Aug. 3rd -- Phillip W. Stokes's "The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature," in the Cambridge Elements series. #Classics #AncientBlueSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Linguistic Nature of Early Christian Arabic Literature

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Persian-Turkish rhyming dictionary (Tuḥfe-i Şāhidī), glossed in French by André Du Ryer (1580-1660), the orientalist responsible for the first printed translation of the Gulistān and the first French translation of the Qur’an from Arabic. BnF, ms Turc 206

#histbookchat #sinology new release!! Laughter, Humor (spelt wrong), & Comedy in Middle Period China, 600-1300 ed. by Alexei K. Ditter & Xiao Rao (2026) open access which is great coz £155 😬 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

New open-access book by Andreas Kaplony on how to read premodern Arabic documents and take advantage of their predictability without being scared off by their seeming illegibility www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

“Pity those who remain helpless in ignorance”: notes in Arabic, Persian, & Turkish by the French orientalist & librarian Louis Picques (1637-1699). Picques copied the proverb from the Persian-Turkish rhyming dictionary he was annotating (Tuḥfe-i Şāhidī). BnF, ms Suppl. Turc 312

〈東京〉須原屋／伊八（すはらや／いちは[!]） 🤔

Maps can also be admired online in #Qalamos, such as this beautiful Ottoman-Turkish atlas containing 50 nautical charts depicting the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean (shelfmark Diez A fol. 57: Kitāb-i Baḥriyye)..../1

#CfA | Project: Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place invites applications for a research project on early printed Hebraica and Judaica | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #jewishstudies #JewishBooks Deadline: October 5, 2026

For the proceedings of the previous /gʁafematik/ conference (23–25 October 2024), see now (in OA 🙏): Part I: www.fluxus-editions.fr/gla11.php Part II: www.fluxus-editions.fr/gla12.php

波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp@schrift-sprache.bsky.social · last mo.

Missed the /gʁafematik/ (aka Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century) conference last month? Most of the recordings have already been uploaded over the last 2-3 days: www.youtube.com/@yannisharal... 🙏 See here for the program: grafematik2026.sciencesconf.org

Just came across this: "The Kaifeng Torah Scroll: a British Library treasure" www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

The Kaifeng Torah Scroll: a British Library treasure

A Hebrew scroll from one of the oldest Jewish communities in China was presented to the British Museum in 1852.

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Registration for our summer classes closes tomorrow — Wed. July, 22nd — so if you’ve been thinking about spending the rest of your summer with Arabic, Russian, Greek (Ancient or Modern), or Proto Indo-European, now’s your chance! Sign up via the link in my pinned post/bio!

On 2 October 2026, the #symposium “The Dede Korkut Epic in the Context of the Cultural Heritage of #Turkic Peoples and World Epics” will take place at #SLUB #Dresden, featuring international talks and the Dede Korkut manuscript. Register by 6 September 2026 at veranstaltungen@slub-dresden.de