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Going offline for a few weeks again, see you guys later!

Joshua be like I'm really concerned about what's happening with Ai in the near future

New paper by @safaitic.bsky.social:

Al-Jallad. 2026. Echoes of Deuteronomy 6:5 in Two Pre-Islamic Arabic Inscriptions (Paleo-Arabic) from Northwest ArabiaThis paper identifies the earliest possible renditions of the Bible in pre-Islamic Arabic (Paleo-Arabic) epigraphy through an analysis of two sixth-century CE inscriptions from Northwest Arabia: BuSDA...www.academia.edu

Someone asked for the hex map 🥲

Has anyone made any Winedarksky jokes yet

the OG Big Yahu

Phoenicians be like I'm really concerned about the growing use of ΑΕΙΟΥ

Reading this Hebrew book from 1872 that regularly uses "ashkenazi" for (non-Jewish) Germans, and "ashkenazit" for their language. When did Hebrew "germani" even get started?

Some interesting reanalyses going on with this root, you also get מוּל and נָמַל. Wonder if some kind of half-hearted taboo avoidance caused speakers to get more creative with it, or to avoid the word frequently enough that learners didn't get the full paradigm.

I'm so late in seeing this movie that the Classicists are already out here reviewing the reviews

First, popularizing publication of our @unileiden.bsky.social project 'From 𐤀 to Α'. Co-written by the whole team, we introduce some of the questions surrounding the birth and spread of the early alphabet that the project tackles. Get the whole issue at www.karwansaraypublishers.com/products/anc...

A revolution in writing: the spread of the alphabetA paper surveying the spread of alphabetic writing throughout the ancient Mediterranean, the possible genealogy of the various alphabets, and the mechanisms behind and dates of their dispersal.www.academia.edu