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Typology Tuesday #1

Warman, a Torricelli language spoken along the Sepik River has a typologically unique conjunctive structure. 'and' is a verb in the language, where it agrees to the coordinands

This unique system is also seen in the related language Yeri

What's pretty weird about this is that this is seldom talked about, cause most languages either employ a noninflecting particle as a coordinating structure.

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The Sino-Arabica Project

Xiao’erjing—Writing Chinese with Arabic Letters: An Introduction

A writing system is not merely a means of recording sounds and ideas, but itself a carrier of religious and cultural values. In Europe, for

Xiao’erjing is, at its core, a phonetic writing system which represents the phonemes of Chinese using adapted Arabic letters. In its phonetic aspect, Xiao’erjing is thus akin to pinyin, the system commonly used to write Mandarin Chinese in Latin letters, though differing notably in that tones are not explicitly marked. This lack of tone markings may be cause for confusion, given the vast repertoire of homophones in Chinese. In a given semantic context, however, native users of this writing system rarely encounter ambiguity, just as an experienced reader of Arabic or Persian has little difficulty inferring the short vowels of a given word despite the absence of diacritics from most texts.

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