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Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B, the syllabic script used to write Mycenaean Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B], died #OnThisDay 70 years ago.

Others had paved the way, notably Alice Kober [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Kober], who had analysed the script and discovered evidence of inflection, which was a starting-point for Ventris to correlate signs representing syllables that had (e.g.) the same consonant sound but different vowel sounds.

John Chadwick, the philologist who became Ventris's collaborator after his initial breakthrough, wrote an excellent account of the decipherment for the non-specialist in ‘The Decipherment of Linear B’: https://archive.org/details/deciphermentofli0000unse_o2q4 (multiple copies on @internetarchive)

Attached is the ‘tripod tablet’, whose discovery was an important confirmation of the correctness of Ventris’s system, and its transcription from Chadwick's book.

#language #linguistics #philology #decipherment #LinearB #Histodons #GreekLanguage #Greek #AncientHistory #OTD

Gronas & Orekhov: The future of philology is semantic. Texts as linked data, machine-readable annotations, interconnected cultural heritage. A vision of the "corpus of all corpora." Crowdsourcing + AI + TEI standards.

https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/gronas_orekhov.pdf

#DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb #Philology #TextEncoding #CulturalAnalytics

Philology students were asked why literature matters today. Their answers: almost entirely clichés—"spiritual enrichment," "history textbook," "moral guide," "intelligence booster." Nearly none gave examples. The paper argues this unreflective "myth of literature" clashes with pragmatic value systems, distorts how students perceive modernism.

PDF: nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/axio.pdf

#Literature #Philology #Axiology #Education #CriticalThinking #Humanities

Muses and Theophany_Muse e Teofania 💫

#multimedia #sacredfeminine #femininity #poetry #art #youtube #youtubeshorts #youtubevideo #Muses #theophany #philology #HistoryOfReligions

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bv3JAFADgZU&is=cenzKM0Y_p0-ljdh

Muses and Theophany 🪷📜🧚‍♂️ Muse e Teofania

#poetry #art #philology #theophany #Muses #youtube #youtubeshorts #multimedia #youtubechannel #EmbracingFemininity #WalterFriedrichOtto

https://youtube.com/shorts/XnqawSh8cjo?is=obOoYR3kiIlLSlwg

New Cædmon's Hymn Manuscript - Reading and Analysis

youtu.be/X6dCx5YkV7M

#OldEnglish #Philology

French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize | France | The Guardian

#philology

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize

The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm

By Chi Luu

How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore

https://daily.jstor.org/the-fairytale-language-of-the-brothers-grimm/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04302026

Brothers Grimm at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Brothers+Grimm

#Books #Literature #Philology #Folklore

The gold medal for deception: How a professor created an international award out of thin air.

In 2016, Florent Montaclair stepped into the spotlight when he received the Gold Medal of Philology, a sort of Nobel Prize for the discipline.

In fact, the award was created by Montaclair himself. It took an investigation by Romanian journalists to uncover this hoax, which is now the subject of a judicial inquiry in France.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260419-the-gold-medal-for-deception-how-a-professor-created-an-international-award-out-of-thin-air?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Philology #Science #Language #AncientTexts #France

REMINDER: Journal of the #TEI: Call for Nominations for Editor

The Advisory Board of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI) seeks nominations and applications for an editor. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Review of nominations will begin on March 30, 2026. We will continue to review nominations/applications until the position is filled.

Mor information: Call for Nominations https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kXn2FZ4WcQQ0e7pSZ26aCGTh328q_acLInXpLWDGQg/edit?usp=sharing

#digitalhumanities #scholarlyEdition #linguistics #philology cc @TEIConsortium

Fun exercise! A blog post written in nearly a dozen different snapshots of English.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #English #philology #linguistics

Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/estudos-sob-o-atharvaveda-livro.html

#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro

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#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess

Okay, so "redact" and "react" are from the same word stems (re + agere, although react uses the past participle actus), but coined about 200 years apart.

Wait, where'd the "d" come from, I hear you ask? Well, the "re-" prefix used to take a "d" in front of stems that started with a vowel, like redeem, redundant, redolent.

Then later we stopped adding the "d" but we kept making words. Hence "react."

#english #philology

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks

Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras

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#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks

Archaeoethnologica: Studia Celtica Posnaniensia Nº 9 - 2024

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#CelticStudies #Linguistic #philology #irish #welsh #insularceltc #journals #OpenAccess

Latvian philologist and poet Kārlis Vērdiņš, born OTD in 1979, has authored many academic papers on literature, published four volumes of poetry, and written librettos and lyrics https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/latvia/?s=mb #travel #philology #poetry

Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro

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#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro

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#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro

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#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess

**Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language**

"_Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed suggest that the Xiōng-nú and the Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language and that this was an early form of Arin, a member of the Yeniseian language family._"

Bonmann, S. and Fries, S. (2025), Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language. Trans Philologic Soc. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12321.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Language #Philology #Academia #Academics @linguistics

Classic post: the biggest Assyriological film festival in history https://www.bookandsword.com/2018/12/02/the-biggest-assyriological-film-festival-in-history/ #histodons #ancMedToot #philology #cuneitoot

On 'the meaning & usage of “intifada” in anti-occupation & anticolonial contexts' - who decides what words mean: the hearer or speaker?

#Intifada as uprising against colonialism, shake off, protest, strike, writing, counter-hegemonic knowledge production, peaceful resistance

#Philology as 'radical potential'

#OpenUniversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=M8OTrRoPp5c&t=335s