Activity for user53100
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A: Why is the ـً in "شُكْرًا" and others pronounced? I asked a native speaker and the following are his responses representing his theory, edited slightly (posting here with permission). N.B. He emphasises many times that this is speculation. Also, Arabizi is used for the Latin transliteration, so "3" represents ع. > I can't really give you an educa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Why is the ـً in "شُكْرًا" and others pronounced? Why is the -an in "شُكْرًا" (shukran) pronounced? I've heard it pronounced this way in Modern Standard Arabic and in colloquial. In both, I'd usually expect the -an to not be pronounced, especially not before a pause as "شكرًا" is often used where instead I'd expect it to be pronounced shukra. I t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why "sommaren är kommen" rather than "sommaren har kommit" in Swedish? "kommen" is the past participle (perfekt particip) of komma. From this site, > Perfekt particip is used as adjective and declines almost the same way as adjectiv. [sic] An example given in the site of the past participle is "maten är köpt", with a translation being, "the food is bought", and "d... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Dictionaries of modern spoken Arabic dialects - "Dictionnaire arabe-français, contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l'idiome vulgaire que dans l'idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d'Alger et de Maroc" (1860) by Kazimirski is an Arabic-French dictionary, that covers the dialects of Algeria and Morocco in ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How were ת & ט pronounced historically? Geoffrey Khan's (open access!) book, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"[^1], discusses the pronunciation of Hebrew according to the Masoretes of Tiberias, who were active about a millennium ago; section I.0.4 gives some history. The author notes in the preface, however, that th... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What explains Arabic "Greater Etymology"? This article discusses "Greater Etymology" (الاشتقاق الكبير) in Arabic, which "recognizes the common meanings words with different base letters share," as opposed to "Lesser Etymology" (or morphology, as it is also referred to), which "works at the level of a set of base letters and [...] recognizes ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Why is linguistics limited in how much it can look back in time? I've often seen that "we can only look back in time a short distance in linguistics". What prevents linguistics from deducing information far in the past? Is this limit something that can be pushed back with development of the science of linguistics? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Are resource requests on-topic? Should questions asking for resources be on-topic? I imagine questions of the form, "Resources for learning language X" or "Grammar reference for language X" or "Free online English-Language X dictionaries" and the like. If they are to be on-topic, how should they be organised? One extreme would b... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |