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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Bulakh, Maria. (2026). Why did Old Ethiopic cease to be a spoken language?: publications.hse.ru/pubs/share/d... Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. (2005). A survey of the Dahalik language, an Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea: shs.hal.science/halshs-00319...

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The distribution of <dʾ> particle in Ḥimyarite inscription is mostly in the Tihāmah where the ḤBŠT settled and mixed with the locals. The negator also appears in an Aksumite inscription (RIÉ 192) containing other unique linguistic features of a language ancestral to Təgre-Dahālik spoken in Adulis.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New Ahmad Al-Jallad interview dropped a minute ago. Work can wait the next 2 hours. youtu.be/h_hYgSyEIJA?...

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Pre-Islamic Arabia between Myth, Memory, and Material Evidence | Professor Ahmad Al-Jallad

YouTube video by Near East by Midwest Podcast

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Nicole Oesterreich @noester.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Finally, the new #Ge'ez grammar from Stefan Weninger is out! This should replace the old Dillmann grammar.

Orange book cover of Stefan Weningers Grammatik der altäthiopischen Sprache from Harrasowitz with an image of an ancient Fidel manuscript.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

and spread to northeast africa. my lactase persistence allele (-13915*G) that determines my ability to consume camel milk comes from arabia.

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Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

An introduction to the Dhofari script and the background of the name Muhammad/Mahmed (the AI thumbnail says 2500 BCE for some reason, unrelated to video!). With best wishes, youtu.be/BoltvOGEmjQ?...

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Lost Script of Arabia Finally Deciphered — What It Reveals About the Name Muhammad

YouTube video by MythVision Podcast

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Yeah, חייא would be the more accurate Hebrew equivalent to يحيى

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Pretty sure this stamp seal (𐩺𐩢𐩺𐩥) from Yeḥa (Tigray) shows an early Sabaic and Geʿez form of the corresponding non-theophoric Arabic name Yaḥyā (يحيى) attested in Safaitic as yḥy(y). The Sabaic/Geʿez is yḥyw with the y- being the imperfect prefix of ḥyw (life). The name would be "Yiḥyaw/Yəḥyaw."

Meant to be read left-right since that's the sequence of the sealed letters.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Do you believe Christians were responsible for creating the literary context in which the (Paleo-)Arabic script and subsequently the Qurʾān emerged from? Something akin to what we see the influence of Christianity had on the Armenian, Cyrillic, and (less convincingly) the Geʿez abugida script?

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

read it from ehret. will get back to you on the cognates.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

No expertise in linguistics so might be a dumb take but the cognates for river animals between agaw and PEC really lend itself to the idea that there existed some proto-language spoken along a river. Really wish linguists weren't so allergic to archaeology and genetics to see the connections here.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🗿NABATAEAN NEWS🗿 Recently (2024), Laïla Nehmé published four #Nabataean texts from a burial site in north-western Saudi Arabia. Three are very fragmentary, but the fourth is the longest Nabataean text on stone found so far! Two things that stood out to me: 1/6

Photograph of a light grey rock fragment inscribed with 22 lines of Nabataean script.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

there's limited genetic implications one can draw from linguistics presupposing linguistic clusters parallel genetic ones and that speakers have genetic continuity with predecessors of the same language family. so linguistics only provides low resolution genetic info, especially archeogenetic info.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the west eurasian source for the naqada gebelein samples was best modelled as hotu iran, which has the highest percentage of basal eurasian ancestry yet recorded. modern egyptians are best modelled by neolithic levantine farmers than autochthonous north african basal eurasians found in naqadans.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

oh you're referring to the unknown third intermediate, late intermediate, and byzantine samples. i agree with you, but it's just bizarre to me that upper and lower egyptians would continue to remain distinct in their basal eurasian ancestry after the middle kingdom period.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

what is it about those samples there that suggest this component? that study has ancient egyptian samples from the predyn to the roman period

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Oh hello. Let me introduce you to Mitri, an Egyptian scribe who lived 4,300 years ago. He’s most famous now because of his extraordinary statue with its strikingly realistic, piercing eyes. They’re lined with copper & the iris is rock crystal. A truly remarkable artwork. 🏛️📷Egyptian Museum Cairo

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

you're right. the west eurasian source for the naqada gebelein samples was best modelled as hotu iran, which has the highest percentage of basal eurasian ancestry yet recorded. and it's very likely that basal eurasians were autochthonous to north africa according to pagani.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

there's no peer-reviewed publication yet, but there's an article from someone who had access to a naqada sample from gebelein. it's admittedly low resolution but this component peaks in the kadruka sample from kerma, as well as in modern-day nubians, copts, and bejas. revoiye.com/pre-dynastic...

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

as far as im aware, there's no solid evidence of the language spoken in these early nubian cultures during the predyn period. evidence of a nilo-saharan language only really emerge from the meroitic period.

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𐩹𐩱𐩴𐩲𐩸𐩺𐩬 | Yoni @adulisian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

wouldn't it be likely that the middle/terminal a-group nubians from the lower nubia and the eastern desert, who had settlements as far deep into upper egypt as hierankopolis, were these cushitic speakers?

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Did Ancient Egyptian absorb a large number of Cushitic speakers, when Upper & Lower Egypt got unified? A tentative reconstruction of some Afroasiatic prehistory-into-history, now up on my blog. Let's discuss! #egyptology #langsky 🧠💬 egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/11/poss...

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Possible Linguistic Evidence for Egyptian’s Arrival from the West and Subsequent Absorption of Cushitic Speakers: A Tentative Reconstruction within Afroasiatic, Based on a Reanalysis of Ancient Egypti...

This blogpost is part of an ongoing research project reanalyzing Ancient Egyptian for auxiliary verbs. It expands on ideas presented at the ...

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Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I seem to have picked up a lot of new followers over the last few days (1k! 🤯). So: Hi! If you're interested, below's a link to the PDF of our recently published intro "'Ethiopia' and the World, 330-1500 CE". Otherwise, my 2021 book got a nice write-up here www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-...

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A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe

For centuries, a Eurocentric worldview disregarded the knowledge and strength of the African empire

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

explaining where the /i e a o u ɨ ɐ/ vowel system came from

Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme; the Spidermen are labeled "Ethiosemitic" and "Central Cushitic"

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