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mapsontheweb · 11 hours

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Linguistic Map of Central Italy in the 6th Century BC

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edge-particularly-push · 3 days

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#onlyoneof #namjoon #olivia wilde #thoma x reader #funny videos #desserts #namjin #languages #chevrolet #Riley Steele #corpse party #sissi femboi #men's clothing #puss in boots

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rubydubydoo122 · 2 days

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Who of the Batfam speaks what languages? This is about all of the main members + Alfred.

Please don't ask me this. The list is too loooooonnnnnggggg

they all probably every european language, French, German, Spanish, Italian, ect ect

I would also like to think Steph and Duke don't know as many languages, just because they're usually stationed in Gotham

I would like to think Cass, Jason and Damian know more Asian languages compared to the rest of the family, because of their time in the league.

Also, while I'm on that note, Cass knows how to talk, I'm pretty sure. She learned herself. I just feel like if she's feeling any overtly negative emotion, she'll revert back to going mute. But she can talk. She can communicate in other ways besides sign language, and she understands basic sentence structure, I'm pretty sure. (I am guilty of writing her as an emotional support doll in my previous fic, but now i just get angry when I see someone else writing her like that.)

#batman #batfam #dc comics #cassandra cain #languages #dick grayson #bruce wayne #tim drake #damian wayne #duke thomas #jason todd

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valiantcoffeelove · 2 days

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Monday 15th | 21/100 days of productivity₊ ｡˚⊹

Revise French flashcards [5m]

Revise Japanese flashcards [5m]

Study for history test (4/3) [1h]

Listen to Japanese TV in the bg [30m]

Print mockup for paintings > got approved yay!

Finish making portfolio [10m]

Revise before English quiz, make flashcards [15m]

Read The Body Keeps The Score [30m]

Word of the day: to bloom; blossom -> flower bloomed fr: fleurir [-ir verb] -> la fleur a fleuri jp: 咲く [さく] -> 花が咲いた [はながさいた] cn: 开花 [kāihuā] -> 花朵开花 [huāduǒ kāihuā] nl: bloeien -> bloem bloeide

🎧₊ ˚⊹ raindrop city - lamp

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survivetoread · 1 day

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Do you agree with the popular conclusion in western linguistics that vowel length is not phonemic in modern Marathi (even if it’s indicated in writing)? I went to Maharashtra for the first time during my last visit to India and I did notice that vowel length was a lot more ambiguous than I expected in all cases, but especially in the distinction between अ and आ. But the mutual intelligibility between Maharashtrian Marathi and my dialect, Thanjavur Marathi, is not great, so wtf do I know

This sounds like one of those things that we don't really pay attention to as native speakers, but would be very important for someone learning the language!

However, I do think that there is plenty of ambiguity between short and long vowels, especially इ/ई and उ/ऊ. The example that comes to mind for me is that the -वू suffix in Marathi, where say धावू नकोस is pronounced closer to धाउ नकोस.

I can't say I've noticed an ambiguity between अ and आ though. I think some examples might help there.

I'm no linguist, but this was a really cool ask! Thank you!

#langblr #marathi #languages #linguistics #indian languages

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truechaoticmind · 1 day

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Learning 3 languages simultaneously is surprisingly helpful. I remember words easier when I connect them to other languages. Pronunciation is the real struggle.

#student #university #languages #study #studyblr

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ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts · 7 months

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I mean that about sums it up

#linguistics #gotta love linguistics #languages #langblr #lingblr #chaotic academia

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hana-loves-bumblebees · 1 year

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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

#languages #linguistic #linguistics #language #studying languages #me with ja kiitos and colours

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sometiktoksarevalid · 5 months

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#cc #video games #tower of babel #languages #chants of sennaar

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incognitopolls · 12 days

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about language #languages #language learning

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runawaymarbles · 4 months

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It's always so disappointing when sci fi and fantasy books call their languages "Basic" or "Common". No language is apolitical or universal: if they're all calling one language Basic, who made it that way? Why is THIS dialect "Common" and all the others are Special/Magical/Incomprehensible??? Show me even a hint of the politics, or give your language a real name

#sci fi fantasy #languages #linguistics #op

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m-eowdy · 6 months

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This is the list of most natively spoken languages in the world, and I want to see how it relates to the (English speaking) tumblr population that will see this.

#mine #language #languages #langblr #native language #poll #polls

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hometoursandotherstuff · 2 months

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I'll never use thingamajig again, I like these other ones better.

#languages #linquistics #fun with language #other stuff

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mwagneto · 2 years

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genuinely about to cry at the word for france in te reo māori. so like. almost every country name is just the english name but altered to only have letters that exist in te reo (so like canada = kānata, norway = nōwei etc) except france that is literally just fucking. wīwī. as in ouioui. imgoing to fucking die

#found it last night and it's the funniest thing ive ever seeeeeen it made me laugh so #much i couldn't stop coughing for hours afterwards but it was literally worth it. help mee #kei te mare tonu ahau :( it's been over a weeeeek smashes phone #te reo māori #aotearoa #barking #sorry for 2 a/otearoa posts within 24 hours i try to limit it to like once a month at most so i #dont seem insane but these were both relevant rn🙈#once a month thing is a joke i dont count it but like. yknow #languages #te wiki o te reo māori

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linestorm · 10 months

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#tell me how your brain works #polls #languages #culture

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writingwithcolor · 5 months

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Naming International POC Characters: Do Your Research.

This post is part of a double feature for the same ask. First check out Mod Colette's answer to OP's original question at: A Careful Balance: Portraying a Black Character's Relationship with their Hair. Below are notes on character naming from Mod Rina.

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@writingraccoon said:

My character is black in a dungeons and dragons-like fantasy world. His name is Kazuki Haile (pronounced hay-lee), and his mother is this world's equivalent of Japanese, which is where his first name is from, while his father is this world's equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. He looks much more like his father, and has hair type 4a. [...]

Hold on a sec.

Haile (pronounced hay-lee), [...] [H]is father is this world’s equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from.

OP, where did you get this name? Behindthename.com, perhaps?

Note how it says, “Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. Check marks indicate the level to which a name has been verified.” Do you see any check marks, OP?

What language is this, by the way? If we only count official languages, Ethiopia has 5: Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, & Tigrinya. If we count everything native to that region? Over 90 languages. And I haven't even mentioned the dormant/extinct ones. Do you know which language this name comes from? Have you determined Kazuki’s father’s ethnic group, religion, and language(s)? Do you know just how ethnically diverse Ethiopia is?

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To All Looking for Character Names on the Internet:

Skip the name aggregators and baby name lists. They often do not cite their sources, even if they’re pulling from credible ones, and often copy each other.

If you still wish to use a name website, find a second source that isn’t a name website.

Find at least one real life individual, living or dead, who has this given name or surname. Try Wikipedia’s lists of notable individuals under "List of [ethnicity] people." You can even try searching Facebook! Pay attention to when these people were born for chronological accuracy/believability.

Make sure you know the language the name comes from, and the ethnicity/culture/religion it’s associated with.

Make sure you understand the naming practices of that culture—how many names, where they come from, name order, and other conventions.

Make sure you have the correct pronunciation of the name. Don’t always trust Wikipedia or American pronunciation guides on Youtube. Try to find a native speaker or language lesson source, or review the phonology & orthography and parse out the string one phoneme at a time.

Suggestions for web sources:

Wikipedia! Look for: “List of [language] [masculine/feminine] given names,” “List of most common [language] family names,” “List of most common surnames in [continent],” and "List of [ethnicity] people."

Census data! Harder to find due to language barriers & what governments make public, but these can really nail period accuracy. This may sound obvious, but look at the year of the character's birth, not the year your story takes place.

Forums and Reddit. No really. Multicultural couples and expats will often ask around for what to name their children. There’s also r/namenerds, where so many folks have shared names in their language that they now have “International Name Threads.” These are all great first-hand sources for name connotations—what’s trendy vs. old-fashioned, preppy vs. nerdy, or classic vs. overused vs. obscure.

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Luckily for OP, I got very curious and did some research. More on Ethiopian & Eritrean naming, plus mixed/intercultural naming and my recommendations for this character, under the cut. It's really interesting, I promise!

Ethiopian and Eritrean Naming Practices

Haile (IPA: /həjlə/ roughly “hy-luh.” Both a & e are /ə/, a central “uh” sound) is a phrase meaning “power of” in Ge’ez, sometimes known as Classical Ethiopic, which is an extinct/dormant Semitic language that is now used as a liturgical language in Ethiopian churches (think of how Latin & Sanskrit are used today). So it's a religious name, and was likely popularized by the regnal name of the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (“Power of the Trinity”). Ironically, for these reasons it is about as nationalistically “Ethiopian” as a name can get.

Haile is one of the most common “surnames” ever in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why was that in quotes? Because Ethiopians and Eritreans don’t have surnames. Historically, when they needed to distinguish themselves from others with the same given name, they affixed their father’s given name, and then sometimes their grandfather’s. In modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, their given name is followed by a parent’s (usually father’s) name. First-generation diaspora abroad may solidify this name into a legal “surname” which is then consistently passed down to subsequent generations.

Intercultural Marriages and Naming

This means that Kazuki’s parents will have to figure out if there will be a “surname” going forward, and who it applies to. Your easiest and most likely option is that Kazuki’s dad would have chosen to make his second name (Kazuki’s grandpa’s name) the legal “surname.” The mom would have taken this name upon marriage, and Kazuki would inherit it also. Either moving abroad or the circumstances of the intercultural marriage would have motivated this. Thus “Haile” would be grandpa’s name, and Kazuki wouldn’t be taking his “surname” from his dad. This prevents the mom & Kazuki from having different “surnames.” But you will have to understand and explain where the names came from and the decisions dad made to get there. Otherwise, this will ring culturally hollow and indicate a lack of research.

Typically intercultural parents try to

come up with a first name that is pronounceable in both languages,

go with a name that is the dominant language of where they live, or

compromise and pick one parent’s language, depending on the circumstances.

Option 1 and possibly 3 requires figuring out which language is the father’s first language. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned national ubiquity of Haile, you will have to start from scratch here and figure out his ethnic group, religion (most are Ethiopian Orthodox and some Sunni Muslim), and language(s).

But then again, writing these characters knowledgeably and respectfully also requires figuring out that information anyway.

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Names and naming practices are so, so diverse. Do research into the culture and language before picking a name, and never go with only one source.

~ Mod Rina

#asks #language #languages #linguistics #east africa #african #immigration #ethiopian #names #naming #research #resources #writeblr #character names #character name ideas #rina says read under the cut. read it

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