#beja — Public Fediverse posts
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Beja acogerá la cumbre mundial del enoturismo responsable https://www.vinetur.com/20260511100439/beja-acogera-la-cumbre-mundial-del-enoturismo-responsable.html #enoturismo #vino #turismoresponsable #Beja #Alentejo
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Beja acogerá la cumbre mundial del enoturismo responsable https://www.vinetur.com/20260511100439/beja-acogera-la-cumbre-mundial-del-enoturismo-responsable.html #enoturismo #vino #turismoresponsable #Beja #Alentejo
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#Tunisia received 136 #Chinese buses at #LaGoulette port to boost regional transport fleets, the final batch of a 461-bus deal, reinforcing TRANSTU & #Beja’s regional company, with a new 621-bus contract planned as part of efforts to modernise public transport nationwide. #TAP_En
(@TapNewsAgency)https://nitter.net/TapNewsAgency/status/2046258059245207601#m
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#Tunisia received 136 #Chinese buses at #LaGoulette port to boost regional transport fleets, the final batch of a 461-bus deal, reinforcing TRANSTU & #Beja’s regional company, with a new 621-bus contract planned as part of efforts to modernise public transport nationwide. #TAP_En
(@TapNewsAgency)https://nitter.net/TapNewsAgency/status/2046258059245207601#m
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#Tunisia: 8-year-old Iyad Bourio from #Teboursouk (#Beja) took 1st place at the #Istanbul International Summit of Geniuses in Mental Arithmetic, which gathered young talents worldwide, showcasing incredible mental math skills like visualisation & pattern recognition. #TAP_En
(@TapNewsAgency)https://nitter.net/TapNewsAgency/status/2041590030456528924#m
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#Tunisia: 8-year-old Iyad Bourio from #Teboursouk (#Beja) took 1st place at the #Istanbul International Summit of Geniuses in Mental Arithmetic, which gathered young talents worldwide, showcasing incredible mental math skills like visualisation & pattern recognition. #TAP_En
(@TapNewsAgency)https://nitter.net/TapNewsAgency/status/2041590030456528924#m
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#Tunisia: Nearly 80,000 low-voltage & 5,000 medium-voltage smart meters have been installed by March in pilot areas incl. #Sfax, #Kerkennah, #Sousse, eastern #Tunis & #Beja, with target being 500,000 by end 2026 & nationwide rollout of 5 mln by 2035, said the #STEG CEO. #TAP_En
(@TapNewsAgency)https://nitter.net/TapNewsAgency/status/2039060539876216948#m
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21 Anos de Arruaça
Galeria do Desassossego, sábado, 18 de abril às 22:00 GMT+1
Está a chegar o nosso aniversário e vamos celebrá-lo como sabemos, com música e muita arruaça 🍻
Para encabeçar esta celebração dos 21 anos temos João Pedro e os Almendras. João Pedro Almendra dispensa apresentações. São mais de 40 anos na cena punk nacional e traz consigo um punhado de músicas que fazem parte da nossa memória coletiva: “Chuta Cavalo”, “Veneno”, “Quero Ser Eu”, “É Difícil”, “Carraspana”, “Sr. Políticos” e tantas outras cujos refrões serão entoados de garganta bem aberta.
Num mundo cada vez mais absurdo, chamámos também os Acromaníacos. Ironia, arruaça e zero filtros, para nos lembrarem que há sempre espaço para festa, mesmo quando tudo arde.
E porque há regressos que fazem sentido, volta também o DJ Billy, que já tem tantas saudades de Beja quanto nós temos dele.
É aniversário. Apareçam.
Somos de abril. ✊ -
21 Anos de Arruaça
Galeria do Desassossego, sábado, 18 de abril às 22:00 GMT+1
Está a chegar o nosso aniversário e vamos celebrá-lo como sabemos, com música e muita arruaça 🍻
Para encabeçar esta celebração dos 21 anos temos João Pedro e os Almendras. João Pedro Almendra dispensa apresentações. São mais de 40 anos na cena punk nacional e traz consigo um punhado de músicas que fazem parte da nossa memória coletiva: “Chuta Cavalo”, “Veneno”, “Quero Ser Eu”, “É Difícil”, “Carraspana”, “Sr. Políticos” e tantas outras cujos refrões serão entoados de garganta bem aberta.
Num mundo cada vez mais absurdo, chamámos também os Acromaníacos. Ironia, arruaça e zero filtros, para nos lembrarem que há sempre espaço para festa, mesmo quando tudo arde.
E porque há regressos que fazem sentido, volta também o DJ Billy, que já tem tantas saudades de Beja quanto nós temos dele.
É aniversário. Apareçam.
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Le Quotidien - Nouvelles découvertes #archéologiques à Numluli, Henchir El Matria à #Béja
Henchir El Matria figure parmi les villes #romaines les mieux conservées du nord de la #Tunisie. Le forum, avec son #capitole, un grand temple à cour, deux complexes #thermaux, un #martyrium ainsi qu’une #basilique #paléochrétienne, constituent les principaux #monuments structurant le paysage urbain de la #Numluli #romaine.
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Le Quotidien - Nouvelles découvertes #archéologiques à Numluli, Henchir El Matria à #Béja
Henchir El Matria figure parmi les villes #romaines les mieux conservées du nord de la #Tunisie. Le forum, avec son #capitole, un grand temple à cour, deux complexes #thermaux, un #martyrium ainsi qu’une #basilique #paléochrétienne, constituent les principaux #monuments structurant le paysage urbain de la #Numluli #romaine.
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Le Quotidien - Nouvelles découvertes #archéologiques à Numluli, Henchir El Matria à #Béja
Henchir El Matria figure parmi les villes #romaines les mieux conservées du nord de la #Tunisie. Le forum, avec son #capitole, un grand temple à cour, deux complexes #thermaux, un #martyrium ainsi qu’une #basilique #paléochrétienne, constituent les principaux #monuments structurant le paysage urbain de la #Numluli #romaine.
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Le Quotidien - Nouvelles découvertes #archéologiques à Numluli, Henchir El Matria à #Béja
Henchir El Matria figure parmi les villes #romaines les mieux conservées du nord de la #Tunisie. Le forum, avec son #capitole, un grand temple à cour, deux complexes #thermaux, un #martyrium ainsi qu’une #basilique #paléochrétienne, constituent les principaux #monuments structurant le paysage urbain de la #Numluli #romaine.
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Le Quotidien - Nouvelles découvertes #archéologiques à Numluli, Henchir El Matria à #Béja
Henchir El Matria figure parmi les villes #romaines les mieux conservées du nord de la #Tunisie. Le forum, avec son #capitole, un grand temple à cour, deux complexes #thermaux, un #martyrium ainsi qu’une #basilique #paléochrétienne, constituent les principaux #monuments structurant le paysage urbain de la #Numluli #romaine.
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CALL and DOT
Two conferences in the last three weeks: my first Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (as a speaker), in Leiden as always, and a day and a half of the 35st Deutscher Orientalistentag, in Erlangen.
Both were a lot of fun. I saw many different talks at CALL, too many to summarize, and mostly too off-topic as well. I was there to ask why we think Cushitic forms a single family within Afroasiatic (see also these blog posts). Despite the purposefully provocative title of my talk, I was not assaulted by any angry mobs of Cushiticists.1 The main question seems to be whether we really should disregard the lexicon when looking at subclassification (and then the next question should be whether the lexicon does show that Cushitic is a clade). It was also really cool to see several talks by young researchers whom I taught as first-years and who have now all finished their MAs and partially started PhD projects: shout-outs to Nina van der Vlugt, Melle Groen, and Jeroen van Ravenhorst. Post your slides online, guys!
Kollegienhaus Erlangen.At the DOT, I co-chaired a panel on Semitic (in practice: mostly Hebrew) reading traditions together with Harald Samuel. While some of our presenters sadly had to cancel, we still had a great line-up, with exciting findings in every talk:
Chanan Ariel (Tel-Aviv University) proposed a highly original new explanation for the Biblical Hebrew phenomenon of dehiq, where consonants following certain unstressed vowels are geminated. According to Ariel, this is an orthoepic feature and applies to vocalic suffixes that alternate with zero, as well as some cases where the geminated consonant had to be kept apart from a following guttural. Works really well IMHO.
Aaron Hornkohl (University of Cambridge) provided a thorough discussion of the ketiv-qere phenomenon, presenting an up-to-date linguistic view of its origins and purpose in hopes of spreading more awareness of this to less linguistically inclined Hebrew Bible scholars. One thing that stood out to me is that words that are present in the consonantal text but left unpronounced in the reading tradition (ketiv wela qere) are sometimes translated in targums and other ancient versions.
Jonathan Howard (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented his ongoing PhD research on the “Palestinian” vocalization system of Hebrew and Aramaic and pointed out that so far, there’s really no good evidence that it’s from Palestine. He’s hoping to find some, but it might be more impactful if he doesn’t.
Johan Lundberg (University of Oxford) walked us through the increasing complexity in Syriac punctuation signs, including the development of something that is roughly equivalent to an exclamation mark! Cool fact: in at least one of the few Syriac manuscripts of the entire Bible, the scribe has simply maintained the punctuation of each source text, resulting in several different systems coexisting in the same final work.
Emmanuel Mastey (Tel-Aviv University) presented a nice statistical inquiry into h-final spellings of 2m.sg. perfect verbs in Biblical Hebrew. Besides the very frequent case of נָתַתָּה ‘you gave’, Mastey finds that this spelling is especially common with verbs that have t as their third radical and, less so, with third-weak verbs. He suggests a phonological explanation for both classes; I wonder whether with the III-t roots, it may rather be motivated by the usefulness of distinguishing e.g. שתה ‘you placed’ from שת ‘he placed’.
Isabella Maurizio (University of Lorraine according to the programme, but I think that may be outdated? Sorbonne soon from what she told me) presented her recently completed research on the Second Column of Origen’s Hexapla, the oldest fully vocalized source (in Greek script!) for Biblical Hebrew. Big shock to me: Maurizio dates the Secunda to the 2nd c. BCE-1st c. CE, not the 3rd c. CE!
Marijn van Putten (Leiden University) appeared virtually to frighten the Hebraists with the tricky history of the Qur’anic reading traditions, with examples like one where a certain reader’s Arabic is notably more archaic than that of his teacher’s teacher. Since we barely know anything about who transmitted the Hebrew reading traditions, how much of this stuff are we missing due to a lack of data?
Harald Samuel (University of Tübingen) continued the sceptical line by noting some features of Tiberian Hebrew that appear to be really late (quoting me[!] from an informal conversation in which I said that a certain change must have taken place “about two hours before Ben-Asher went to work that morning”). How do we reconcile this with the alleged presence of extremely early, First Temple period features in the reading tradition as well?
Christian Stadel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented on some clearly late and some unquestionably early features of the Samaritan reading tradition and talked about how it relates to the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch more generally. It reminded me a bit of a presentation I gave on a similar topic several years ago. I only have one semester of Samaritan Hebrew, though—taught by Christian Stadel!—while Stadel is a real expert on the Samaritan languages. So it was reassuring to hear him argue for similar conclusions as well as present a whole lot more interesting data.
Last of all (due to alphabetization, but it worked out alright), I got to present on the project on the construction of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition that I’ve been doing at Leuven since 2019. I’m not sure the argument I presented is fully sound, so it was great to be able to discuss it with some colleagues afterwards.
The Semitics section continued this morning. In her section keynote, Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas Austin) presented her SemitiLEX project (recorded talk by another project member, haven’t watched it yet), looking at cognate Semitic lexemes not just in terms of roots, but also looking at morpho-lexical features like gender and pluralization. Unexpected result: building phylogenetic trees based on these data shows Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic clustering as four or five separate branches, instead of Northwest Semitic clustering together and then being closer to Arabic than to Akkadian.
Maria Rauscher (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny) presented her ongoing work on a dictionary of Arabic verbal nouns, focusing on the difficult case of k-r-h ‘to dislike’. As we had some extra discussion time for both Pat-El’s and Rauscher’s talks, there was time enough for the audience to draw up battle lines and get into the details of linguistic theory (such as: are morphemes even a thing?).
Stefanie Rudolf (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) presented on two Qur’anic phrases that she suggests are unrecognized borrowings from Ethiosemitic. “The Lord of the East and the West” is attested in an Ethiopian Early Sabaic inscription, while Rudolf proposes the Arabic root f-t-w ‘to judge’ may be borrowed from Ethiosemitic f-t-ḥ. While she acknowledges the phonological difficulty of the last case, maybe we should reckon with the possibility of an unknown (South?) Ethiosemitic language that lost the pharyngeals acting as an intermediary: in the beginning of her talk, she pointed out that early Islamic sources refer to an Abyssinian with a name that is not Ge’ez but pre-Amharic (I think Ababut?), which I found very cool.
Jan Retsö (University of Gothenburg) pulled off the trick of reading out a text with no slides or handout while being perfectly easy to follow and entertaining. After an overview of the scholarship on Semitic–Ancient Egyptian cognates and loanwords, Retsö responded to Alexander Borg’s recent claim that there are lots of specifically Arabic loanwords in Egyptian. Retsö thinks there’s something there but urges for methodological precision.
Mohammad I. Ababneh (University of Halle) presented on some difficulties in Safaitic paleography, including merged letters and ligatures and other weird letter shapes. Nice to see some discussion of former Leiden colleague Chiara Della Puppa’s dissertation!
Finally, Vera Tsukanova (Philipps-Universität Marburg) took a look at the phonological adaptation of Persian loanwords into Arabic from a Semiticist and diachronic perspective. Historical differences in aspiration go a long way in accounting for prima facie unexpected sounds in borrowings.
And now, the conference is kind of on hold for various business meetings, which I took as my cue to leave. In conclusion, I would like to note that I am posting this from a high-speed train, which feels very futuristic. While some discussions in the field stay the same for what seems like forever—Paul Kahle’s lecture at the first DOT in 1922 was referenced multiple times—I take this as a sign that like Deutsche Bahn passengers, no matter the inevitable delays, detours, and frustrations, overall, we are getting somewhere.
- Only by a toddler, possibly for unrelated reasons. ↩︎
#Akkadian #Amharic #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Bible #Cushitic #EastCushitic #Egyptian #Hebrew #linguistics #Samaritans #Syriac #Ugaritic
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#Tunisia: The train from #Beja to #Ghardimaou, #Jendouba governorate derailed on Monday, a short distance from Beja town station, without causing any human damage, but brought traffic to a standstill on the #Tunis-#Annaba (#Algeria) & Tunis-Ghardimaou lines. #TAP_En
Source: @TapNewsAgencyhttps://nitter.privacydev.net/TapNewsAgency/status/1886476425948955003#m
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The Semitic languages show a regular correspondence of p in some languages and f in others. For instance, ‘mouth’ in Akkadian is p-ū; Biblical Hebrew pe; Biblical Aramaic pūm; Ge’ez ʾäf;1 and Classical Arabic fam-. (Modern South Arabian should have an f too, but has replaced this word.) This sound is uncontroversially reconstructed as Proto-Semitic *p, as in *p-ūm ‘mouth’.2 Traditionally, the change of *p to f was taken as a diagnostic feature of the South Semitic languages.
This figure and the next adapted from Huehnergard & Rubin (2011).[p] to [f], a plosive changing into a fricative, is an example of lenition. Lenition is a common type of sound change, so we tell our students, so it makes sense that *p is the older sound and it changed to f. So far, so good.
While preparing my first couple of classes for Comparative Semitics this year, I suddenly wasn’t so sure about this anymore. Two things bother me:
- The examples of p > f I know about are all part of a larger change affecting other plosives too, like Grimm’s Law (Proto-Indo-European *p, *t, *k, *kw > Proto-Germanic *f, *þ, *h, *hw and related changes) or Aramaic and Hebrew BGDKPT-spirantization. Is just p turning to f really so common? How about just f turning into p?
- Most scholars don’t accept the family tree above anymore. In the current model, the changes look more like this:
Now we need three or four separate instances of *p > *f—just as I’m starting to doubt how common that change is. Huehnergard & Rubin (2011), who argue for this second family tree, explain this as an areal change that spread through contact. But what kind of a contact scenario should we think of here? Did f spread from Ancient South Arabian (if those languages even had it) to all its neighbours? It’s not like we see enough other shared contact features to confidently posit a South Semitic language area or something.
Looking at Afroasiatic, things don’t get better:
- Berber has f, not p
- Cushitic has f, not p
- Egyptian has p and f, but we don’t know which one corresponds to Semitic *p (if either)
- Chadic: same as Egyptian, to my knowledge
- (I’m not sure Omotic is Afroasiatic, still reading up on this)
So if we posit Proto-Semitic *p, either we need two more independent cases of *p > *f (Berber, Cushitic),3 maybe more (Egyptian? Chadic?), or we reconstruct *f for Proto-Afroasiatic and say Proto-Semitic changed *f to *p. At which point, why not cut out the middleman and keep *f, then change it to *p in East and Northwest Semitic? Just two changes instead of the minimum of six you need otherwise.
So, are there any good arguments to reconstruct Proto-Semitic *p—or should we press *f and leave behind this relic from theories that believed in a South Semitic subgrouping?
- Probably influenced by Cushitic, but we can still take it as related to the other Semitic words. ↩︎
- In my opinion, the only word known so far with a superheavy syllable, exceptionally permitted because the word is monosyllabic. ↩︎
- I’m also really starting to doubt that Cushitic is one family. So maybe make that four (Berber, Beja, Agaw, East/South Cushitic). ↩︎
https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/froto-semitic/
#Afroasiatic #Agaw #Akkadian #Ancie #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #ModernSouthAr #Omotic #ProtoSemitic
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Earlier this year, I had two fun conversations with the team of the then newly-founded Kedem YouTube channel, which popularizes scholarship on the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The first video was published yesterday. We talk about the concept of a language family, what languages constitute the Semitic language family, where Semitic comes from geographically and linguistically, how we can reconstruct earlier ancestors of the attested languages, and a few things this kind of reconstruction tells us about Proto-Semitic.
Stay posted for my second video with this channel, to be released sometime next year, on the different modern and—especially—ancient pronunciations of Biblical Hebrew.
https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/video-intro-to-the-semitic-language-family/
#Afroasiatic #Akkadian #Amharic #AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #Moabite #ModernSouthArabian #news #Omotic #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic #Tigrinya #Ugaritic
