@levantophile As a Romance speaker who's never properly studied French... this is exactly how French lands for me.
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Josh Lipson
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Josh Lipson
@Josh_Lipson
Psychologist of edge states, genetic historian, poet. Postdoc @EmoryUniversity Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality, co-president @JewishGenomics.
Katılım Aralık 2019
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I don’t think it’s because of different linguistic styles, or at least I don’t think that’s the main reason.
When I read the lyrics of most songs in Darija, I generally understand what’s written, because most of the words ultimately come from Arabic (even if we don’t necessarily use the same vocab), and I can infer the rest from context.
What sounds foreign to our ears is the pronunciation, and that’s really what we struggle with. The first time I heard “Ya Rayeh,” everything after those two words sounded like gibberish to me. I had to listen to it a few more times before I could make out what was being said, and it was only after reading the lyrics that I fully understood it.
What applies to Maghrebi dialects applies to Maltese as well. I can read and understand virtually all of the signs, billboards, and information plaques in Malta, but I barely understand spoken Maltese at all, aside from the occasional word.
Salma@lallathurayya
It’s not a matter of Maghrebi dialects being incomprehensible but one of Darija having evolved through hybridity and eventually created its own popular poetry traditions with new linguistic styles. People outside of the Maghreb need to stop viewing our culture as an extension of who they are or what a one dimensional Arab culture represents. There is a literature tradition in the Maghreb that is unique in Classical Arabic, Darija, Tamazight & French equally
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@Neurilogical @DanDavisWrites that seems to have gotten dwarfed and significantly replaced by West Asian J1-P58 (particularly J-L862) at an early moment in population history
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@Neurilogical @DanDavisWrites Each of these stories is different, and the Y vs. autosomal discrepancy among Balts is definitely interesting. IMO, another case in very deep protohistory that may fit into this general bucket is that of the Semites - who are an Afroasiatic group with distinct varieties of E-M35
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Yes, Basques don't have especially high steppe ancestry but are overwhelmingly R1b Y-haplogroup.
You see a similar genetic-linguistic disconnect in Etruscans.
Language, ancestry, and material culture don't always align.
How did it happen in practice? We must speculate...
Lethe scholar@Lethescholar
Basques are not the Iberian people with the highest Yamnaya admixture, but yeah, it’s curious that they have Iberian-like levels of that admixture when they don’t even speak an IE language. But if you stop there, you’re missing the bigger picture (4 tweets thread)…🧵
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@Neurilogical @DanDavisWrites I'm talking about male-mediated Haplogroup N among Lithuanians and Latvians.
eupedia.com/europe/Haplogr…
"Haplogroup N1c is found chiefly in north-eastern Europe, particularly in Finland (61%), Lapland (53%), Estonia (34%), Latvia (38%), Lithuania (42%) and northern Russia (30%)"
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@Josh_Lipson @DanDavisWrites Balts have almost no Finnic admixture, maybe a couple of percentage points. It was an assimilation with little to no cultural and linguistic impact. Finland/ Finns themselves would be a better example of what you’re talking about.
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@rinaltransplant @sharghzadeh Metro New York is family no matter how many times I've tried to escape - but New England has my undying romantic love
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@Josh_Lipson @sharghzadeh I feel the same way as a Masshole every time I'm forced to visit New York
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Rich: Hamptons
Professor/journalist/artist: Catskills
Working class: Miami
Jim Savage@savage_acro
NYC has three distinct social groups based on long weekend vacation destinations: - those who go to the East (Hamptons), - those who go South (Miami, Caribbean), and - those who go North (Upstate, Vermont, Quebec). Entirely different status hierarchies.
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I want a full family tree of Israelite religions.
Karaites, Samaritans, whatever was going on at Elephantine &c
Who’s got the full set with when they branched off?
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@curcuas My impression is that they’re solidly Southern kingdom descended but from some early split on validity of eg adding more texts, oral traditions &c
And elephantine community seems kinda pagan in a Northern kingdom way. There must be more though!
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@hbdchick @javiero08640650 + my caribbean spanish has gotten much better since, having lived surrounded by it
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@Tatsuya9JP What is the best theory for why the % of Jomon ancestry is autosomally rather low among the Japanese, but the Jomon-linked Y-DNA is pretty hefty? What happened there? Recriprocal Japanese-Ainu influence on Honshu sounds compatible w/this, but the story must be something radical.
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The ethnogenesis of the Ainu people, one of the indigenous ethnic groups of Japan, with deep roots streching back to the Jōmon period hunter-fisher-gatherers of the Japanese archipelago – looking at both genetic and linguistic data (e.g. Juha Janhunen 2018, Sato et al. 2021):
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@DanDavisWrites I was also just reviewing some of the evidence for Japanese ethnogenesis. Pretty wild that in that case, Jomon/para-Ainu ancestry is way more enriched on the Y chromosome than genome-wide? How'd that happen?There must be a story.
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@DanDavisWrites the influx of male Papuan ancestry into the Lapita people before their further spread into Oceania looks like a middle case.
If I'm not wrong, majority of Polynesian Y-chromosomes are Melanesian/Papuan in origin, not from the urheimat in Taiwan/S China.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-DNA_hap…
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@razibkhan worth checking out the short novel "You Dreamed of Empires" for a close, matter-of-fact perspective on the Aztec way (+ how mushrooms depend heavily on cultural framing, do not guarantee "love and light")
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@nntaleb @YomYam9999 So, to be clear, you believe a bunch of medieval Germans woke up one morning and said what the heck let’s be Jews. I’m genuinely interested in what you think happened.
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1/4 In Hebrew, the word for "stapler" is shadkhan.
Same word as "matchmaker."
A matchmaker joins two parties who belong together. A stapler joins two sheets of paper. Somebody saw the joke. Nobody knows who. 🧵
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