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Male Gujarati South African Muslim | Amateur Linguistics and Islamic Studies | Follow/Interaction ≠ Endorsement

Joburgpur
Joined August 2025
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🧵 | The letter 'ض ẓ̂ ḍ' lin Soqotri and it's relation to the historical phonology of Arabic and the recitation of the Qur'an (This map is extremely outdated)
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I did my vowel charts a while ago its way reduced than most common English varieties
The trick to English is vowels don’t really matter. 150,000,000 of my friends and I in North America have half the vowel inventory English is supposed to have. In New Zealand they just use random vowels. We all understand each other fine.
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Imagine calling supporting china principled anti imperialism
🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇳: Principled and consistent anti-imperialism 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼: Le basic human empathy 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇳: Adolf Hitler 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼: Adolf Hitler 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇨🇳: Adolf Hitler 🇷🇺🇵🇸🇹🇼: Adolf Hitler 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇨🇳: Adolf Hitler 🇷🇺🇮🇱🇹🇼: Adolf Hitler
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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.
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Cant believe I got people spreading South Africa white genocide narratives in my comments
We literally had failing a failing power grid with rolling blackouts water shortages massive corruption in all levels of government. Target farm killings of white farmers. Joburg is basically a failed state.
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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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Imam was trying to say مقولہ maqūlah in the bayaan but it sounded like he said makula
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🧵| Some interesting similarities I noticed between Syriac and the Modern South Arabian languages (mainly Jibbali)
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*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)
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*Loss of the 3mp suffix in the perfect and short prefix conjugation (S. 3mp qṭal J. 3mp ķɔdɔr)
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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'
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I distinctly remember this but I cant find the original pages I did all this on but I basically just thought these were English orthography for long vowels and I even applied to stuff like transcribing Arabic sometimes
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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.)
Replying to @JihadalHaqq
***Not possession, it indicates whether something is a subject. The whole term, represented formally as "X-u al-Y" is what indicates possession, called an idaafa
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Guide for interacting with South African twitter 🇿🇦 White 🇿🇦 Boer 🇿🇦 Zulu 🇿🇦 Xhosa 🇿🇦 Sotho 🇿🇦Tswana 🇿🇦Venda 🇿🇦 Indian 🇿🇦 Coloured 🇿🇦 Malay 🇿🇦☭ EFF voter 🇿🇦🇮🇱 Ex IDF soldier in Capetown/Sandton
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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.
219 votes • Final results
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Technically له/لها (lahu/laha) means “to him/her”. The 3rd person plural is the same in all cases: هم (hum) is masculine while هن (hunn) is feminine
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Why is it that people cant put in the effort to learn something new Its always everyone mist conform to my people, my scripts my language, everyone else must put in the effort to make my life easier
let us all start writing our respective Indian languages in English script ... why have 200 scripts in India
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South African is way too broad
Replying to @BlueGreenblue3
kiki: aussie, nz, south african, boston, scouse bouba: ssb, geordie, cockney, estuary, southern american
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I got the best of both worlds (Africa and South Asia?
I love how linguistics enthusiasts i meet on the Internet tend to disproportionately come from places with languages that are very cool to study like Georgia or India
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Anyone know why anytime I try to search on the OCIANA website I get this? I dont get any prompt for a captcha or anything and theres no Login so I'm confused
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