Ah yes, the linguistic hipsters of the Mexican jungle 🌿 dust off their ancient scrolls 🧾 and surprise! They're speaking languages older than your grandma's fruitcake recipe 🥴. Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues to butcher Spanish after their third margarita 🍹.
https://yucatanmagazine.com/mayan-language-renaissance/ #linguisticdiversity #ancientlanguages #Mexicanjungle #culturalheritage #languagehumor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, a riveting exploration of Latin's most exciting career path: Vatican Latinist! 🙄 Dive headfirst into a snoozefest of ecclesiastical grammar pedantry, where the most thrilling plot twist is conjugating verbs in ancient languages. 📜✨ Who knew the Holy See was so... thrilling? 😴
https://newcriterion.com/article/the-vaticans-latinist/ #VaticanLatinist #EcclesiasticalGrammar #AncientLanguages #CareerExploration #ConjugatingVerbs #HackerNews #ngated

$1 million prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old Indus Valley script

The government of Tamil Nadu has offered a $1-million reward for anyone who can decode the cryptic script of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the world’s oldest urban cultures...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/01/prize-offered-to-decipher-indus-valley-script/

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木ノ葉ノ散レル
金色ノ
木ノ葉ノ踊リ
色多キ
森道渡ル
其ノ時ゾ
思フ時ナル
露霜ノ
秋カ森ツ世
美シキ也

#japanese #poetry #oldjapanesepoem #oldjapanese #ancientlanguages #classicaljapanese #古代日本 #古文 #日本語

幻ノ
霧カ生マルル
山ツ森
荒キ河ナル
禰加川カ谷

#japanese #poetry #oldjapanesepoem #oldjapanese #ancientlanguages #classicaljapanese #古代日本 #古文 #日本語

BDG news: India Recognizes Pali as a Classical Language, Highlighting Its Cultural and Religious Significance

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/2s4kcn4t

#buddhism #buddhiststudies #ancientlanguages #buddhisthistory #buddhistculture #buddha #sanskrit #narendramodi #palicanon #theravada

The oldest known languages in the world, such as Sumerian and Egyptian, date back over 5,000 years. These early languages gave rise to some of the first writing systems, including cuneiform and hieroglyphs, marking the beginning of recorded history. Writing began as a tool for administration and evolved into a medium for culture and literature, laying the foundation for civilizations.

#Linguistics #History #Writing #AncientLanguages

https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/31/oldest-languages-origins-writing/

+++ 2 #PhD Positons in #Berlin +++
Funded by @DAAD_worldwide the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies is offering two #doctoral #scholarships in the #AncientLanguages and Texts programme (duration: October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2029).

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/international/news-events/news/2024-bgsas.html

A geography teacher, Graham Senior, stumbled across a rock with mysterious incisions while tidying his overgrown garden in Coventry. The rectangular sandstone rock, measuring 11 centimeters in length and weighing 139 grams, bore mysterious inscriptions that hinted at a history dating back more than 1,600 years, shrouded in the enigmatic Ogham alphabet.

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/05/teacher-finds-stone-with-1600-year-old-writing-in-ireland/

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#archaeology #medieval #oghamalphabet #ancientlanguages

A question about #Ugaratic textbooks, are they all or mostly written with the assumption you know st least one other #Semitic language as I've been warned before?

#AncientLanguages #AncientLevant #AncientNearEast #Ugarit #LanguageLearning

Call for Papers for the Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient
Languages (#ML4AL 2024).
The Workshop is co-located at ACL 2024 and will take place in a hybrid format in Bangkok, Thailand and remotely, on 15 August 2024.

The submission deadline is May 17th, 2024 11:59pm, UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).

Please refer to the ML4AL workshop website for the full
CfP and for more information: http://ml4al.com/

#ML #AncientLanguages

2nd CFP: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient
Languages (LT4HALA 2024)

Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/

Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/lt4hala2024/

Place: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy

Date: Saturday, May 25 2024

#LanguageTechnology #History #AncientLanguages

Workshop on #Data-driven Approaches to #AncientLanguages (DAAL) in #Ghent, Belgium, following after the conference "Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures" organised by the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.

More information can be found on https://www.dbbe2024.ugent.be/workshop/