Marijn van Putten
Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer @team18k
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@torahgunes @ancient_satyr *sigh* this is such a silly red herring. We have multiple *large* fragment (more than 40%) partially overlapping sections of the Quran. Every single vers...
@yasinelsarraj @SaoodHMH @elameri_s I don't really remember. But let's talk about it in the abstract: If we take the Quran as a corpus that is part of classical arabic, we can say...
@yasinkaraa__ Hey! Interesting question, let me answer it in two ways: 1. In traditional tafsir way of looking at things. 2. how I think about it as a linguist. === 1. It is not at...
@Mehdi_IR_DC @sharghzadeh @Firsou @nntaleb @davidboxenhorn Well depends who you mean by "we". Among the modern Arabic dialects there is considerable variation on how to pronounce i...
An interesting discussion about the šaddah sign in Tašlḥiyt Berber manuscripts is a good reminder just how understudied Arabic writing and ESPECIALLY Maghrebi writing is. I've rec...
@matt_boot_ Maybe... I think @bnuyaminim and @BGaraiko do a nice job at explaining the plural endings, who basically see it as a plural suffix -w- followed by feminine suffix -at-...
Feminine ending with "the usual triptotic case endings" , he says! I've argued a couple of years ago that the feminine ending originally was in fact diptotic in proto-Semitic. The...
They program for the Leiden Summer School is up! Lots of great classes, but I've been responsible (with @bnuyaminim and Marwan Kilani) to put together the Semitic and (for the fi...
@Abraham81891703 @RevivalofMan Yes. That's exactly the right question to ask. It would be pronounce Hira in modern greek both with and without those corrections. And also in Koine...
@ait_kisou @lameensouag I vaguely remember something about this yes...
@AlanSmith8859 For the question of the pausal spelling principle and its counterargument (I would say there's more than 2) it's also worth checking out chapter 7 of my new book, es...
@MamounSakkal I'm not entirely sure what 0888 is to be used for. As for the other two: it's difficult to answer this question, because Quranic solutions tend to be "one off" soluti...