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Ling Lore @linglore
Joined January 2019
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Ling Lore retweeted
Ling Lore@linglore
6 Jun 2019
The 6th of June is #UNRussianLanguageDay, marking the birth in 1799 of writer Aleksandr #Pushkin, who is considered the founder of modern #Russian literature.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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5 Mar 2021
#OnegaBay is the southernmost arm of the #WhiteSea. The town of #Onega sits at the mouth of the #OnegaRiver. (Nearby #LakeOnega is a separate body of water in the #BalticSea basin.) The name 'Onega' is thought to be related to #Finnish 'Enojoki' (main river). The Onega River:
A photo of the Onega River at Severoonezhsk, Russia.

ALT A photo of the Onega River at Severoonezhsk, Russia.

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Ling Lore retweeted
Ling Lore@linglore
7 Feb 2020
The #PsalteriumSinaiticum is an 11th-century #OldChurchSlavonic manuscript written in #Glagolitic. It was discovered in 1850 in another monastery much further south: Saint Catherine's, a #Greek monastery on the #Sinai Peninsula in #Egypt. Where exactly it was written is unknown.
A page of Glagolitic text from the 11th-century Psalterium Sinaiticum, one of the canon monuments of Old Church Slavonic.

ALT A page of Glagolitic text from the 11th-century Psalterium Sinaiticum, one of the canon monuments of Old Church Slavonic.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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1 Mar 2021
The White Sea's current name in #Finnish and in #Karelian is #Vienanmeri (Dvina Sea). The #NorthernDvina River empties into the #WhiteSea's southeastern #DvinaBay at #Arkhangelsk. '#Dvina' may derive from a #ProtoIndoEuropean word for 'river'. [Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S…]
The Northern Dvina River basin in Russia. (The Western Dvina, after which the Northern Dvina is named, is a separate river that flows into the Baltic Sea.)

ALT The Northern Dvina River basin in Russia. (The Western Dvina, after which the Northern Dvina is named, is a separate river that flows into the Baltic Sea.)

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Ling Lore retweeted
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4 Feb 2020
The #CodexZographensis is an #OldChurchSlavonic manuscript from the late 10th or early 11th century. It was written by #Bulgarian monks at the #Zograf Monastery in #MountAthos, #Greece using the #Slavic #Glagolitic #alphabet. #Cyrillic pages were added during the 13th century.
The first page of the Gospel of Mark in Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic from the Codex Zographensis. It contains colourful decorative illustrations at top and notes jotted in the margins, including some in Cyrillic.

ALT The first page of the Gospel of Mark in Glagolitic Old Church Slavonic from the Codex Zographensis. It contains colourful decorative illustrations at top and notes jotted in the margins, including some in Cyrillic.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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24 May 2022
The 24th of May is the birthday of Cristina Calderón, the last native speaker of Yaghan. She passed away in February of 2022.
Ling Lore@linglore
31 Mar 2019
Cristina Calderón (b. in 1928), of Puerto Williams, 🇨🇱#Chile, is the last living native speaker of Yaghan, the world's southernmost language, which is unrelated to any other #language. The #Yaghan people have lived in Tierra del Fuego and nearby islands for at least 10,000 years.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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24 May 2020
The 24th of May in the #Gregorian calendar is counted as the 11th of May in the #Julian calendar used by the Eastern #Orthodox Church, where it's the feast day of Saints #Cyril and #Methodius. #Russia, #Bulgaria, and #NorthMacedonia celebrate #Slavic culture and writing today.
Ling Lore@linglore
3 Jan 2020
Replying to @linglore
Two 9th-century #Byzantine monks, Saints #Cyril and #Methodius, were brothers from #Thessaloniki who evangelised #Slavs. Cyril invented #Glagolitic, the first #Slavic #alphabet, and used it to standardise a literary form of the Slavic #language now known as Old Church #Slavonic.
An 1874 fresco of St Cyril and Methodius in St Dimiter Church in Panorama (Kalapot), Drama, Greece

ALT An 1874 fresco of St Cyril and Methodius in St Dimiter Church in Panorama (Kalapot), Drama, Greece
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Ling Lore retweeted
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27 Feb 2021
The #Scandinavian version of '#KandaBay' is 'Gandvík' ('vík' = 'bay'), described in #Norse #mythology as a dangerous sea. The 1394 #Icelandic manuscript #Flateyjarbók names the #WhiteSea Gandvík. (In other sources #Gandvík might refer to the #GulfOfBothnia in the #BalticSea.)
A partially-illustrated page from the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók.

ALT A partially-illustrated page from the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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3 Feb 2020
#Bulgarian Orthodox monks from #Ohrid founded the #Zograf Monastery in the late 9th or early 10th century on the #Greek peninsula of #MountAthos on the #Aegean Sea. Its #library amassed many #mediaeval #Slavic manuscripts written in #Glagolitic and #Cyrillic.
The Saint George the Zograf Monastery in Mt Athos, Greece. Its imposing present-day buildings date from the middle 18th century.

ALT The Saint George the Zograf Monastery in Mt Athos, Greece. Its imposing present-day buildings date from the middle 18th century.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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18 May 2019
#Turkmenistan celebrates the 18th of May as its day of revival and unity. It marks the birth in 1724 of poet #Magtymguly #Pyragy, who promoted #Turkmen autonomy and wrote in #Turkic (instead of #Iranian) #languages, including classical #Chagatai. x.com/linglore/status/111047…

Ling Lore@linglore
26 Mar 2019
#Chagatai was spoken throughout Central Asia in the 15th century and was still used as a literary language until the early 20th century. It belongs to the #Karluk branch of the Common #Turkic #languages. #Uzbek and #Uyghur both descend from Chagatai.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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17 May 2019
#Galician (aka #Galego) has ~2.4m speakers, mostly in #Galicia, 🇪🇸#Spain. #GalicianLiteratureDay, the 17th of May, is a public holiday there. It marks the day in 1863 when poet Rosalía de Castro defied convention by publishing "Cantares gallegos" in Galician instead of #Spanish.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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26 Feb 2021
The ancient name '#Kanda' still appears in Kandalaskha, a variant of #Kannanlakši, which means 'Kanda Bay' in the #Finnic #Karelian #language. #Кандала́кша / #Kandalaksha is a town on the #KandalakshaGulf, the northwestern arm of the #WhiteSea. [Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…]
A photo of the town of Kandalaksha, seen from a distance. Part of the Kandalaksha Gulf is visible in the left part of the photo

ALT A photo of the town of Kandalaksha, seen from a distance. Part of the Kandalaksha Gulf is visible in the left part of the photo

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Ling Lore retweeted
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13 May 2019
#Rotuma is a remote dependency of 🇫🇯#Fiji. The 13th of May is #RotumaDay. #Rotuman belongs to the #MalayoPolynesian branch of the #Austronesian family. Its agent-verb-object word order and its use of #metathesis (sound transposition) set it apart from neighbouring #languages.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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2 Feb 2020
The #CodexAssemanius demonstrates that the #Glagolitic #alphabet was still being used to write #OldChurchSlavonic in the 11th century in the western #Balkan area of #Macedonia. The parchment contains Gospel lectures for church celebrations.
A leaf of parchment showing rounded Glagolitic letters. The drop cap letters at the section beginnings are decorated with patterns and illustrations of faces.

ALT A leaf of parchment showing rounded Glagolitic letters. The drop cap letters at the section beginnings are decorated with patterns and illustrations of faces.

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Ling Lore retweeted
Ling Lore@linglore
24 Feb 2021
The modern name of the #WhiteSea started to appear on maps during the late 16th century. Before then the local #Pomor #Russians and #Karelian people called it the #Kanda Bay, a name that may derive from the #KaninPeninsula, which flanks the White Sea's entrance to the northeast.
A satellite image marking the location of the Kanin Peninsula on Russia's Arctic coastline.

ALT A satellite image marking the location of the Kanin Peninsula on Russia's Arctic coastline.

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Ling Lore retweeted
Ling Lore@linglore
2 Feb 2020
The #Preslav #Literary School and eastern #Bulgaria in general were quick to adopt the #Cyrllic #alphabet in the 890s. Writers in the western #Balkans, including at the #Ohrid Literary School, still favoured #Glagolitic, switching to Cyrillic only gradually over a few centuries.
A map of the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries showing the capital Preslav in the east and Ohrid in the west. Ohrid is in present-day North Macedonia.

ALT A map of the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries showing the capital Preslav in the east and Ohrid in the west. Ohrid is in present-day North Macedonia.

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Ling Lore retweeted
Ling Lore@linglore
21 Feb 2021
The #WhiteSea (#Белоеморе / Béloye móre in #Russian) is an inlet of the #BarentsSea in northwestern #Russia. The name White may refer to sea ice. Or it may be part of a wider tendency to describe seas as white. For example, South #Slavs call the #AegeanSea the 'White Sea'.
An early-18th-century map of the White Sea, including detail of the mouth of the Northern Dvina River, by English cartographer Samuel Thornton.

ALT An early-18th-century map of the White Sea, including detail of the mouth of the Northern Dvina River, by English cartographer Samuel Thornton.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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5 May 2019
The Community of #Portuguese #Language Countries (CPLC) has nine members: 🇵🇹#Portugal 🇧🇷#Brazil 🇦🇴#Angola 🇲🇿#Mozambique 🇨🇻#CapeVerde 🇬🇼#GuineaBissau 🇸🇹#SãoToméAndPríncipe 🇹🇱#TimorLeste 🇬🇶#EquatorialGuinea. The #CPLC celebrates the 5th of May as #LusophoneCultureDay.
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Ling Lore retweeted
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31 Jan 2020
In 894 #ConstantineOfPreslav is believed to have written Histories, the first historical chronicle in #Slavic #literature. He went on to write, compile, or #translate numerous other works. He was an advocate for #OldChurchSlavonic who urged #Bulgarians not to favour #Greek.
A weathered depiction of Constantine of Preslav from an antique bible.

ALT A weathered depiction of Constantine of Preslav from an antique bible.

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Ling Lore retweeted
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18 Feb 2021
#Mediaeval #Russians called the #BarentsSea the '#Murman Sea'. The #Russian word múrmane (#Norwegians) probably derives from Old #Norse norðmaðr (#Norseman). #Му́рманск / #Murmansk is a city on the #MurmanCoast, an area of the #KolaPeninsula previously inhabited by Norwegians.
A map showing the extent of ice cover in the Barents Sea in January 2009. Labels added to show the location of Murmansk on the Murman Coast of the Kola Peninsula.

ALT A map showing the extent of ice cover in the Barents Sea in January 2009. Labels added to show the location of Murmansk on the Murman Coast of the Kola Peninsula.

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