Darin Flynn
@phono_logical
assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary
New typing speed world record (15s) by Joshua Hu youtube.com/watch?v=4n8ZLM…
Saddened to learn of both Salishanist Tom Hukari and Caucasologist Zaira Khiba’s deaths this month (July 17 and 23, 2025).
Zaira Khiba Hewitt, a respected linguist passed away on 23 July in Doncaster, UK. Her life and work were honoured in a message of condolence from President Badra Gunba, who described her as a devoted supporter of Abkhazia. abkhazworld.com/aw/current-aff…
Open access until Aug. 8: “The philosophy of linguistics” by Ryan M. Nefdt (July ’25) cambridge.org/core/elements/…
If this line of research results in a Swadesh list down the road, “squirrel!” damn well better make the list
“Toward automatic discovery of a canine phonetic alphabet” by Theron S. Wang, Xingyuan Li, Hridayesh Lekhak, Tuan Minh Dang, Mengyue Wu and Kenny Q. Zhu (July ’25) aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.…
“Prospects of Harmonic Serialism in morphology” by Gereon Müller (July ’25) home.uni-leipzig.de/muellerg/igra2…
“Affrication in Najdi Arabic: application and resistance” by Yasser Albaty (July ’25) jahs.qu.edu.sa/index.php/jah/…
Khmer has surprisingly few words that begin with the velar nasal, but despite being few in number, several high-frequency words do begin with /ŋ/, including ងូត /ŋuːt/ 'to bathe' x.com/KhmerWords/sta…
ងូត — to wash oneself in a bath or shower; to bathe #khmer #cambodia #learnkhmer
OH Ghanese /ɡɑˈniːz ~ ɡaˈniːz ~ ɡæˈniːz ~ ɡɑˈniːs ~ ɡaˈniːs ~ ɡæˈniːs/? Cf. Ghanaian /ɡɑˈneɪ̯.ən ~ ɡaˈneɪ̯.ən ~ ɡæˈneɪ̯.ən ~ ɡɑˈnaɪ̯.ən ~ ɡaˈnaɪ̯.ən ~ ɡæˈnaɪ̯.ən/ & Ghanian /ˈɡɑ.ni.ən ~ ˈɡa.ni.ən ~ ˈɡæ.ni.ən ~ ˈɡɑn.jən ~ ˈɡan.jən ~ ˈɡæn.jən/
