@chiaweilin.bsky.social - Lin, Chia-Wei

20 Jun 2026 18:16 +0000

TIL: There are actually TWO sets of Indo-Arabic numerals in Unicode 😅

02 May 2026 07:54 +0000

TIL a nice case of reanalysis in Swahili: For kitabu 'book', ki- is reinterpreted as the prefix of class 7. The plural of kitabu is therefore vitabu, with the prefix vi- of the corresponding plural class 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_grammar

18 Apr 2026 23:04 +0000

https://github.com/chiaweilinunil/LCDTT-tangut I'm compiling a digital corpus of Tangut texts. The first batch of texts is extracted from academic publications in open-access journals and Academia.edu. If you'd like to join our transcription project, don't hesitate to send me a message :)

16 Apr 2026 12:49 +0000

Tangut word of the day: 𘀟𘈷𗶇𘊣𗅆𘃡𗡶 推定胎兒男女法 “Method for determing fetal sex"

09 Apr 2026 18:40 +0000

Old Georgian word of the day: მამათმავლობა mamatmavloba 'to be homosexual' მამათმავლობაჲ mamatmavlobay 'homosexuality' მამათმავალი mamatmavali 'homosexual' literally მამათ mamat 'fathers' + მავალი 'going' -> 'one who goes to the fathers'

02 Apr 2026 17:20 +0000

Longyu Zhang (Ghent University) and I are thinking about initiating a Tangut working group in the style of a Transcribathon or a crowdsourced transcription project, in which we collaborate to produce an open dataset of published Tangut text editions or manuscript images.* 1/3

29 Mar 2026 07:37 +0000

I’ve always thought it would be more fun to teach Pali using Sinhalese and Southeast Asian scripts rather than relying solely on Romanized script, so I compiled a list of electronic resources for the Pali Canon in different scripts :) 1/5 https://da.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/portal/collection/burmese

25 Mar 2026 08:47 +0000

Arabic words of the day: jiḏr جذر (pl. ʾajḏār اجذار) '(square) root' murabbaʿ 'square' ḍilʿ ضلع (pl. ʾaḍlāʿ أضلاع) 'side (of a square)' zāwiyah زاوية (pl. zawāyā زوايا) 'angle' saṭḥ سطح 'surface' wa-ḏālika mā ʾaradnā nubayyina وذلك ما اردنا ان نبين 'and this is what we want to demonstrate'

24 Mar 2026 06:34 +0000

Generated by Gemini. I always find the nature- and agriculture-based month names in Balto-Slavic very poetic, so I asked Gemini to create a table using data from Wiktionary.

15 Mar 2026 19:57 +0000

Georgian/Armenian phrases of the day: եւ մինչեւ ցայս վայր հայերէն էր լեզուն Վրաց. 'until this moment Armenian was the language of the Georgians.' აქამომდის ქართლოსიანთა ენა სომხური იყო, რომელსა ზრახვიდეს§ 'until this time the language of the Kartlosians was Armenian, in which they conversed.'

15 Mar 2026 19:16 +0000

Sanskrit words of the day: कार्किन् karkin 'Cancer (zodiac)' <- Greek καρκίνος कुलीर kulīra 'crab' From Yavanajātaka 1.17 (ed. & tr. David Pingree) cf. https://zodiac-edit.fly.dev/6343?search=cancer

12 Mar 2026 15:59 +0000

Handwritings of great scholars: 1. Sanskrit-devanāgarī: David Pingree (ed.), Yavanajātaka 2. Arabic & Greek: Manfred Ullmann, Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des 9. Jahrhunderts 3. Tangut: К. Б. Кепинг, Тангутский язык: морфология