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I'm working on learning Tigrinya, but am still at a fairly early stage. I essentially know the language's morphology & syntax, but my vocabulary is too small for meaningful independent reading without a dictionary. This year, Google Translate added Tigrinya as one of its supported languages, & it's surprisingly good. Unfortunately, there are a couple challenges to using the extension, & Google Translate more broadly:

1. For some reason, the extension cannot identify Tigrinya text as Tigrinya, & automatically treats it as Amharic. To get the translation from Tigrinya, I have to go thru a long drop-down: Easy once, but a drag as it adds up.
2. The Fidäl script that's used to w

Crum lists a word ϩⲣϩⲣ (Sahidic) or ϧⲉⲣϧⲉⲣ (Bohairic) for 'snore'; Černý suggest comparison with Arabic خَرَّ/خَرْخَر. Do we know an older Egyptian word with this meaning?

In most branches of Cushitic, the word is similar. A borrowing from Arabic is possible for Lowland East Cushitic (eg, Somali khuuri), but far less likely for South Rift Western Cushitic (eg, Iraqw xorootl). (In all of the Highland East Cushitic languages and in Bidhaawyeet—North Cushitic—a different root is used. Agaw uses a third distinct root in addition to the Coptic/Somali-like root.)

Whoever wrote the Wiktionary article notes Russian храп: This could all just be imitative coincidence rather than Afroasiatic hist

Anyone working in language documentation use a laptop specifically for the SIL FieldWorks software? At the school where I did my MA, that was pretty common among Linguistics Department faculty. I don't think that my current laptop is going to last that much longer, & I don't want to subject it to the conditions of my field site. I'm saving to buy a nice computer, but I think I should get something for fieldwork before that. Anyone with experience have any advice about what to look for for this specific purpose?

This is just a brief thought that may be useful to people who are learning languages for which there is a dearth of learning materials: One very common piece of advice in language learning—one I agree with—is that learners should seek out comprehensible input. I've sometimes seen this expressed thus: If your level is n, seek out material that's at a level n + 1. I think that this is the ideal, and I love it when I can find that n + 1 material in a language I'm learning. However, for some languages the available instructional materials can only get you to an n that is very, very low, and n + 1 material simply doesn't exist. If there is zero instructional material for the languag

A couple days ago, I went to Chicago Chinatown to try to find a carbon steel wok at a restaurant supply store. I had some difficulty until I learned that black woks were a form of carbon steel. I brought one home, & just began scrubbing it today as a first step toward seasoning it.

I was a little surprised to discover one thing that I hadn't noticed in the store: Along the lip, there is a wrinkle on the surface that looks like the wok is wrapped in shrink wrap. When I ran my finger over it, I could feel it raised as if there were air bubbles. I then scrubbed it with a Scotch-Brite Non-Scratch scrubbing pad, and the surface scratched up quite a lot. I then ran my fingernail over the wrin

Hope you're all well. I've hit a point in my LaTeX learning where it's difficult for me to figure out how to move forward. It seems like there's a small gap between where I am & where I should perhaps be.

I'm encountering a problem in trying to have the title of an article display properly in my bibliography. The article is from a linguistics journal, and is about the pharynealised stop represented as /tˤ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The symbol appears in the article's title, so I'd like it to appear in my bibliography. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do that, tho.

At least two of the usepackage calls I'm employing are important:

`\usepackage[style=mla]{biblatex

Hope you're all well. I'm wondering what keyboard layouts are common in Eritrea. I've been studying Ge'ez for a little while. When I'm typing on my computer, I use a keyboard mapping in which Ge'ez/Fidäl letters matched to their closest Latin counterparts (e.g., ህ maps to my "H" key, ል to my "L" key, etc.). I'm in the US, so my keyboard is QWERTY—or "ቅውኤርትይ." I've recently begun learning Tigrinya. I'm wondering if there's a more common way to type in Eritrea. Do keyboards show the ግዕዝ/ፊደል letters, or do people just use Latin keyboards with an appropriate software input method?

Much thanks for any info.

I have been learning Ge'ez at university for a year, and have recently begun trying to learn Tigrinya. I have the impression that the numerals used for Ge'ez (፩, ፪, ፫, and so on) aren't normally used in Tigrinya writing today. Is that correct? I downloaded a couple of government publications and found only the numerals from Latin script used for page numbers, dates, and financial amounts. Are there any contexts in which the classical numerals are still used?

Thank you much for any information.

Hope you all are well. I switched to version 2.1.50 Qt6 on my Mac a couple days ago, & have been running into the following problem: I use Anki for studying Gəʕəz and Tigrinya, both of which use the Gəʕəz/Fidäl script. If I'm adding cards, then switch to Browse while I still have the Add window open, upon returning to the Add window about half of the keys on my keyboard no longer work. There is a work-around: If I then switch to another application, type a letter, & return, entry works fine again. I've tested this with Arabic & Thai & not had the same problem.

I was going to post to the Anki forums to register the bug (?), but I thought I'd ask first: Anyone else encounterin

I think there's no way to do this, but I wanted to run it past others: I use different styles for different languages. Having a different colour scheme for each language I work with I find helps me keep things straight. However, I do both basic & cloze cards. Thus, I have separate style sheets for the different card types. When I make a change to the style scheme for a language, it would be really lovely if that could apply across card types. I think this is impossible, but maybe some of you have ideas I haven't thought of.

I have two books (paperback, fairly light) that I'd like to send to a friend who's a university student in Khartoum. Anyone headed there from the US in the near future who would be willing to bring them along and hand them off?

In the English-speaking world, Muslims often use Arabic phrases in English conversation like 'In šā' Allāh' (God-willing) & 'Mā šā' Allāh' (it is as God has willed) & 'Jazāk Allāh xayr' (may God reward you well ≈ thank you). I'm pretty sure that the same happens in Urdu. Do Bosnian Muslims use these phrases when speaking Bosnian? If so, do they seem casual, or do they come off as being particularly religiously marked?

I hope this finds you all well. I'm looking for advice on shopping for a laptop specifically to run FieldWorks for continuing documentation of a language I've been working on.

I have a slightly older Mac laptop that has been my primary machine. It still works, I like it, & will probably continue to use a Mac as my primary machine even after this one kicks the bucket. FieldWorks is really the only thing I expect to do on a Windows laptop.

Up unti this point, I've been handling my documentation through flat text transcriptions of my audio files with metadata at the top of each text file and a single-file index of all my recordings & transcripti

I'm considering purchasing this textbook on-line, but haven't been able to find much info on its contents or format. Has anyone used it? Any opinions on how it stacks up to Martin Orwin's Colloquial Somali?

I often find that when I'm editing the HTML of a card, Ank inserts additional code I didn't write. For example, when I want to specify grammatical information in a cloze, I'll often enclose Leipzig glossing abbreviations in a <span> to produce small caps. So I'll write something like:

When do you go.<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ipfv</span>?

Anki consistently changes this to:

When do you go.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps;">ipfv</span>?

So the shorthand gets replaced by three of its constituent properties,