#ancientlanguages — Public Fediverse posts

Ancient languages like Basque, Tamil, Aramaic, Chinese, and Arabic are still spoken today, surviving thousands of years of history and change.
#AncientLanguages #HiddenHistory #Linguistics #DidYouKnow #CulturalHistory #OldestLanguages
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/oldest-language-0013298

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

So you want to learn #cuneiform, the ancient art of squiggly lines on clay tablets? 🤔 Because nothing screams "modern relevance" like mastering a 5,000-year-old writing system! 📜🗿 Enjoy translating your grocery list into dead languages while the rest of us use keyboards.
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html #ancientlanguages #learninghistory #modernrelevance #claytablets #HackerNews #ngated

So you want to learn #cuneiform, the ancient art of squiggly lines on clay tablets? 🤔 Because nothing screams "modern relevance" like mastering a 5,000-year-old writing system! 📜🗿 Enjoy translating your grocery list into dead languages while the rest of us use keyboards.
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html #ancientlanguages #learninghistory #modernrelevance #claytablets #HackerNews #ngated

So you want to learn #cuneiform, the ancient art of squiggly lines on clay tablets? 🤔 Because nothing screams "modern relevance" like mastering a 5,000-year-old writing system! 📜🗿 Enjoy translating your grocery list into dead languages while the rest of us use keyboards.
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html #ancientlanguages #learninghistory #modernrelevance #claytablets #HackerNews #ngated

So you want to learn #cuneiform, the ancient art of squiggly lines on clay tablets? 🤔 Because nothing screams "modern relevance" like mastering a 5,000-year-old writing system! 📜🗿 Enjoy translating your grocery list into dead languages while the rest of us use keyboards.
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html #ancientlanguages #learninghistory #modernrelevance #claytablets #HackerNews #ngated

$1 million prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script

The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/prize-offered-to-decipher-indus-valley-script/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ancientlanguages #TamilNadu #indusvalleycivilization #Harappa

+++ 2 #PhD Positons in #Berlin +++
Funded by @DAAD_worldwide the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies is offering two #doctoral #scholarships in the #AncientLanguages and Texts programme (duration: October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029).

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/international/news-events/news/2024-bgsas.html

A question about #Ugaratic textbooks, are they all or mostly written with the assumption you know st least one other #Semitic language as I've been warned before?

#AncientLanguages #AncientLevant #AncientNearEast #Ugarit #LanguageLearning

This is pretty cool 😎

#Amorite #language #precursor to Hebrew
#Akkadian #translation

#ancientTablets #ancientLanguages #extinctLanguage #lostLanguage

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axjqm/a-lost-language-translated-from-ancient-tablets-reveals-names-of-gods-in-stunning-find

Ok, time for a formal #introduction. Part of the great #twittermigration of '22, trying to get something settled here in the event of a Twitter crash-and-burn.
I wrangle #Bible data for Faithlife/Logos for my day job. I've translated and/or edited: an edition of the #Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), a Bible #translation (LEB), the Apostolic Fathers (Lexham Press), Apocryphal Gospels (Lexham) and am contributing to a forthcoming translation of OT Pseudepigraphal material (Lexham).
I've published transcriptions and translations of early Christian papyri called "Fragments of Christianity" (Appian Way Press); I've contributed to Tony Burke's NT Apocrypha volumes (Eerdmans).
I am also researching and writing the Baylor (Press) Handbook on the Shepherd of Hermas. Besides all that, I have a minimal part-time gig wrangling data for Clear.Bible.
Phew. So, interests include #apocrypha, #pseudepigrapha, #earlychristianity, #ancientlanguages, as well as #csharp and #python. Also #wct adjacent.