Comme certains ne savent peut-être pas comment utiliser l'instance expérimentale LibreTranslate dans laquelle il y a différents modèles de #traduction en #kabyle, voici un petit tuto vidéo à ce propos.
Ici on récupère l'URL de l'instance grâce à l'API et on l'insère dans l'application #Dialect (Flathub) :
Ça alors ! Le meilleur article sur la langue wallonne de l'année vient de paraitre (voire le meilleure des trois dernières années)… et il est publié en anglais par le Brussels Times !
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1667726/belgiums-forbidden-language-at-the-point-no-return
Une fois de plus : tout le monde se rend bien compte de la valeur de notre patrimoine linguistique… sauf les Wallons eux-mêmes 
@CultureDesk @TheConversationUS Lots of great history here, but not a single map! 
I always feel like Hakka is like a fusion of Hokkien , Cantonese and cat yowling
https://www.alojapan.com/1302056/how-to-get-kicked-out-of-a-kyoto-home-with-a-smile/ How to get kicked out of a Kyoto home with a smile #dialect #Kansai #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #nihongo #Osaka #vocabulary #京都 #京都府 Imagine you’re visiting a friend’s house in Kyoto. You’re having a lovely conversation and, after some time, you’re asked, 「ぶぶ漬けでもどうどすか？」 (Bubu-zuke demo dō dosu ka, Would you care for some green tea over rice?) You can answer one of two ways: 「ありがとうございます。いただきます」 (Arigatō gozaimasu. Itadakimasu, Thank you, I appreciate…
They offered you “o-chazuke” — sounds cozy, right? Wrong. You’re being politely told: “Get out.” Learn how Kyotoites drop hints before a visit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/20/language/kyoto-dialect-invitation-japanese/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #kyoto #dialect #kansai #osaka
To be precise; KAJ's Nessun Dorma pastiche "Nissan bromsa" is in Vörå dialect from northern edit: _Finland_ (ie not northern Sweden - my excuse is that the border is a bit wibbly wobbly in the area). Beautiful to _my_ ears, but if any Swede from "söderöver*" is wondering why the heck their grammar and pronounciation is off from standard Swedish that's why.
(*"from the south")
"Nijmegen heeft allerlei stadsspecialisten: een stadsdichter, een stadsarchivaris, een stadsarcheoloog, een stadstekenaar … en nu ook een stadstaalkundige. Taalwetenschapper Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia is de gelukkige en zoals zijn naam al doet vermoeden: hij is niet in Nijmegen met Nimweegs dialect opgegroeid."
https://www.ru.nl/onderzoek/onderzoeksnieuws/maak-kennis-met-een-nieuw-fenomeen-de-nijmeegse-stadstaalkundige #taal #dialect #Nijmegen #Nimweegs
"Agin" = "against" is a feature of colloquial Irish English. Hence the joke "He who is not for us is a Guinness" ["agin us"], and the dialect word "aginner": one who opposes or begrudges something
New post on Werner Herzog's voice, accent, mimics, and related matters:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/werner-herzog-on-his-voice-and-its-mimics/
Since learning the South Jutlandic dialect of Danish from my wife, I've always been aware that – compared to standard Danish – many final syllables are omitted, so they rely much more on tone and length to distinguish words.
I've recently found a verb that is conjugated entirely through tones and lengths. ‘at vende’ – ‘to turn’:
vende – /vɛ̌nː/
vender – /vɛ̂n/ or /vɛn̰/
vendte – /věːn/
vendt – /vêːn/ or /vḛːn/
@brembs #Wisconsin was rich in #German nomenclature right up until everyone associated the #dialect with #krauts (those #nazis over there)
Then everyone said: Nope, I'm #Polish just to avoid being kicked in the teeth.
If you're ever in #Milwaukee schedule a visit to #read the #past to #inform your #future
Fun facts about the word "ourself":
—It's older than "ourselves"
—It can be singular or plural
—It has multiple grammatical roles
—All good dictionaries still list it
—Shakespeare used it *dozens* of times
—You can use it too, if you want
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/we-ourself-can-use-this-pronoun/
État de la traduction de l'app #Dialect en #kabyle.
Weblate : https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/dialect/
Site officiel : https://dialectapp.org/
Grandma used the word “whatsome” a lot. I've never heard anyone else say it. I often wonder where it came from.
Curiously, the Oxford Dictionary defines it as an obsolete #MiddleEnglish word meaning “whatever” that hasn't been used in over 500 years.
“Whatsome” was Grandma's “whatchamacallit”. She could also say “and whatsome” in the sense of “and so on”.
Incidentally, Oxford recognises “whatsomever” as a surviving #dialect word.
I asked the writer, who said the quote was accurate and that my instincts were right: the child's parents were from Donegal! So with her assent I added a phrase to indicate dialect, for readers' benefit, and avoided "[sic]".
Further reading, for the curious, on "be's" and related idioms in Irish English https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/do-be-doing-bes-habitual-aspect-in-irish-english/
and on what Jessica Mitford called the "pedantic, censorious quality" of "[sic]" https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/the-pedantic-censorious-quality-of-sic/ [2/2]
Edited a research article that quoted a young child saying, "We be'd kind by listening".
I was unsure if this was:
1. a typo for "We'd be kind by listening"
2. variant child speech
3. dialect: it reminded me of Donegal Irish "be's"
If the quote was accurate, and from an adult, I might use "[sic]". But "[sic]" is often used as an editorial sneer, and it would be unduly harsh to apply to a child's utterance. [1/2]
It's time for a linguistics poll:
In English, there is a word for a parent's sister or sister-in-law (or female-presenting sibling/sibling-in-law): aunt.
How do YOU pronounce that word?
Bonus question: where are you from? (answer in the comments, please)
Please boost to extend the responses!
"Scone": rhymes with bone, or with gone? I left a couple of comments. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65494
I once used the pronunciation of "scone" to illustrate a linguistic isogloss in my essay on Irish English dialect: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/wasn-t-it-herself-told-me-which-bit-of-ireland-would-that-phrase-be-from-1.4434174
