going places, telling stories. next week in #Cluj #Kolozsvár #Klausenburg, I'll talk about Old #Romanian paratexts (possibly the oldest such texts extant) in a 16th.-century liturgical manuscript from #Transylvania. #vernacularization; diachronic #sociolinguistics; #dialectology
www.inst-puscariu.ro

That's so fascinating! 😮

I had no idea this place even existed.

I believe this is the only place on Earth with that particular relic accent.

#Elizabethan #1700s #linguistics #dialectology #history
youtu.be/lFvzPWiTCS4?...

A #Lebanese #Arabic way of saying 'You don't need me for anything whatsoever'.

إنتي مش بحاجة لإلي بْوَلا شي

#عربي
#لغة
#اللغة_العربية
#لبنان
#لبناني
#لهجة
#عامية
#Liban
#arabe
#langue
#Lebanon
#language
#dialect
#spokenArabic
#Λίβανος
#αραβική
#dialectology
#حوار
#كلام
#لهجات

A panel from Haunt of Fear where a southern character repeatedly says "cain't".

Spotted a (exaggerated?) representation of the #Southernvowelshift in a #HauntofFear issue c1950s: "can't" as [keɪnt] rather than [kænt].

#comics #horror #linguistics #sociolinguistics #languagechange #phonetics #phonology #dialectology

From ye meowy olde England - Cats in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905): boar cat (tomcat), scattle cat (thieving mischievous cat), tibcat (female cat), to meowl (to cry like a cat) #dialectology #linguistics 🧪 #caturday

Watch this space: I am planning a cat-word survey based on the SED (Survey of English Dialects) questionnaire. It'll be a multilingual survey.

Just setting up Google forms and trying to find out how to habe it in various languages.

Fun, fun, fun 😻 🐦🐦

#dialectology

Cat-related Keywords and Platforms: The Excel Sheets Where do cat afficionados use which feline-inspired words?Here’s a roundup – based on the surveys I did for my book “Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online” (due out in February 2023).....

Where (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube) do cat afficionados use which feline-inspired words? Here’s a roundup – based on the surveys I did: long lists of words in Excel sheets, which I made open access

meowfactor.hypotheses.org/3655

#linguistics 🧪🐦🐦 #dialectology

Britons brace themselves for more floods A warming planet is making a soggy island soggier

Heading this grim article is some natty #dialectology: had not previously heard the terms ‘mizzle’ (autocorrected twice - AI doesn’t like #dialect) and ‘letty’ for ‘pissing it down’
www.economist.com/britain/2024...

Front cover of a book

This is a must-read for #FrenchStudies and #Sociolinguistics enthusiasts interested in language and dialect contact, by Dr Damien Mooney at Bristol. Great selection of monographs. #Linguistics #LanguageandDialect #Dialectology #French #Français

Looking forward to giving this talk at Oxford University's General Linguistics Seminar tomorrow www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/files/gls_pr... #sociolinguistics #dialectology #swissgerman

screenshot of article

that feeling when you've just pressed the 'send' button to send off an overdue article at the same time as you get an e-mail from the editor to remind you it is overdue. priceless! 🤓😃 #linguistics #dialectology #Romanian #Banat

Exploring Norway's nasjonalbiblioteket for the first time today - and it's amazing, such a treasure trove! And much of it online too!! In for some nice reading about Bergen bymål (the Bergen dialect) today. #langsky #dialectology