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Jabal al-Lughat

Climbing the Mountain of Languages.

  • By Lameen Souag
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly one post per month
  • First post on

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Aug 2023 4
Sep 2023 4
Oct 2023 4
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Dec 2023 2
Jan 2024 1
Feb 2024 3
Mar 2024 0
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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