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Jabal al-Lughat

Climbing the Mountain of Languages.

  • By Lameen Souag
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly 18 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2019 6
2020 9
2021 10
2022 0
2023 14
2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Loanwords examined via Pozdniakov's Proto-Fula-Sereer
I recently finished Pozdniakov's Proto-Fula-Sereer, freely available through Language Science Press. This is obviously a very welcome and valuable contribution to West African historical linguistics, an area where much remains to be done. I have …
On , by Lameen Souag الأمين سواق, 1,234 words
"Punching up/down" in comedy: dating a lexical innovation in English
Any educated English speaker nowadays is likely to be familiar with the idea that comedy should punch up, not punch down: i.e., that it's okay to make fun of people more powerful than yourself, but …
On , by Lameen Souag الأمين سواق, 861 words
Abu'l-Atahiya in Korandje
A friend in Tabelbala just posted a translation of some lines from Abu'l-Atahiya into Korandje. Given the general unreliability of Facebook, I think this deserves to be recorded elsewhere, and re-translated into English: آغَمْفْ بَا …
On , by Lameen Souag الأمين سواق, 315 words