Günter retweeted
Pahari dialect of #Galiyat #Abbotabad along with
spectrogram of /ka/ 'grass' and /kær/ 'house' and Punjabi from Faisalabad for comparison of pitch contours.
Most South Africans have no phonemic /ɪ/ in our dialects
It's treated as positional allophone of /ə/ when next to velars /k ɡ ŋ/, before postalveolar consonants /ʃ ʒ tʃ dʒ/, word initially and after /h/
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/pəl/ /piːl/
And
[sɪk] /siːk]
I did my vowel charts a while ago its way reduced than most common English varieties
Günter retweeted
Persian saying:
“Khoob kon va be daryâ bendâz” (خوب کن و به دریا بینداز): “Do good, and throw [the good deed] it into the sea.”
Meaning do good deeds but don’t expect anything in return. Do it because being good should be mankind’s natural state of affairs.
If your conceptions of race and identity are so black and white that you take it based on some arbitrary national laws classifications and now the true complex history it is, you're racist
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🧵| Some interesting similarities I noticed between Syriac and the Modern South Arabian languages (mainly Jibbali)
*Doubled root gemination moving to the first consonant in the short prefix conjugation (S. šbb Perf. 3ms šaḇ 3fs šebbaṯ PCS 3ms neššoḇ, J šbb Perf. 3ms šeb 3fs šəbbɔ́t PCS 3ms yɔššəb)
When I was younger, and first gettint into linguistics I used to make my own scripts and transcriptions based on my English and because my dialect is completely nonrhptic, I use to transcribe long a as '-ar', long e as 'are', and long o as 'or'
Its more like
X-(V) (al-)-Y-i(n)
On basic triptotes
If you want to be incredibly nerdy it's like
X-(+const.)(±Nom./±Acc./±Gen.) — (±def.)-Y-(+Gen.)
To the hospital sounds more natural to me but to hospital isnt exactly wrong to me
Which #English sentence below sounds okay to you?
89%He went to the hospital.
11%He went to hospital.
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