Jabal al-Lughat

The modern borders of Algeria had no existence or meaning in the Roman era, but for any potential Algerian classicists, it may be interestin...

In the Middle Ages as today, Christians and Jews regularly called God "Allah" when speaking Arabic, just as Muslims did . It is ...

A couple of goodies for readers interested in North Africa / contact / the classical Mediterranean (if you fall into the first category, inc...

Most languages probably have a few words used especially for addressing babies. However, Siwi seems to have a lot more than I know from Eng...

I recently heard a rather good folk tale from my father about the adventures of (a completely mythologised) Hārūn ar-Rashīd during his foreo...

One reader of my last post asked how late Latin (or some descendant thereof ) continued to be spoken in North Africa. The answer is, pretty...

Occasionally, I hear Japanese described as free word order because it allows argument scrambling. Then I think of Latin, and go "Hah!...