A full morning of teaching here in Walshrymple towers. Teaching #ManchesterIrish #tunes to a lovely man in a wardrobe in the Hague and #Asturian tunes to a talented young #tinwhistle pupil in #Sheffield. I feel blessed. Sending hugs out x

Week 43, 2023: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week?

Time to break out the sidra yet again, the Asturians are back on top! 馃馃崗馃帀

馃搳 #Wikidata 馃幎馃幍 #ExMusica @[email protected] #AsturiasPatriaQuerida #Asturian #asturianu

Out in the shops in #Spain and #Israel are

馃嚜馃嚫 #Ast茅rix llexionariu in #Asturian for the first time, 谩lbum n煤mberu 17 del h茅roe galu.

馃嚠馃嚤 a re-#translation of Ast茅rix et Cl茅op芒tre, #讗住讟专讬拽住 讜拽诇讬讗讜驻讟专, in #Hebrew.

馃У 2/4

#asterix10 #asturianu #bable #asterix6

Majka is very fast (approx. 1M words per second) free morphological analyzer #Majka including databases for #Czech, #Slovak, #Polish, #Swedish, #German, #French, #Italian, #English, #Portuguese, #Catalan, #Welsh, #Spanish, #Galician, #Asturian and #Russian.

https://github.com/PureHTML/majka

#morphology #Debian #Linux

GitHub - PureHTML/majka: Free natural language morphology pack for debian

Free natural language morphology pack for debian. Contribute to PureHTML/majka development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Week 31, 2023: What @wikidata album languages grew the most this week?

Break out the sidra, the Asturians are back on top! 馃馃崗馃帀

馃搳 #Wikidata 馃幎馃幍 #ExMusica @[email protected] #Asturian #asturianu #bable
馃幍 #AsturiesPatriaQuerida 馃幍

I'm more or less bilingual (#Spanish and #English). I've been thinking about how to communicate with a sense of otherness in both languages. I was considering mangling #Asturian, #Aragonese, or one of the other Iberian tongues, since that would be easier for a native Spanish speaker like myself. Google, in its own twisted, helpful way just recommended me a#YouTube #video about #Anglish... Well, to a rabbit hole I go, then.

https://youtu.be/aMA3M6b9iEY

#Linguistics #AnglishLanguage

ANGLISH: English without the 'foreign' bits

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It's #bandcampfriday today. My lovely album Quarehawk is available on old school Cd & Download. Lots of lovely guest artists from the world of #Irish, #English & #Asturian folk worlds & some heartbreaking poetry from #Mancunian wordsmith Mike Garry. Do take a look. #woodenflute #Song https://michaelwalsh1.bandcamp.com/album/quarehawk
Quarehawk, by Michael Walsh

13 track album

Michael Walsh
Thank you Dr Elsa Marshall for helping decipher Torner's work on #Asturian lyric #song. Flipping heck it was a confusing system old Snr Torner came up with. Progress though. #PhD . @TimHortons coffee helped. @TUOSMUSIC
Love this album from #Asturian #woodenflute & #gaita player Diego Pangua. Released on FonoAstur now available @ www.musicasturiana.com . If you like McGoldrick fused you'll like this. #folk https://open.spotify.com/track/20SYjZhy6DR86lO1Ozpn1t?si=yaE_Q7sUTAyg1hDd7Gt3-Q&utm_source=native-share-menu
Caldue帽u

Diego Pangua 路 Song 路 2010

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Hello to all the lovely people who followed me this week. Here's a snatch of my music. The late great Colin Irwin called it "Art music for the soul". #Irishmusic #Mancunian #Folk #Spokenword #Flute #Trad #Asturian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS88UMfcK_g&list=OLAK5uy_nq1gjsOs70Zo2M5RankF6c_FkfUgGiazo&index=2
Quarehawk

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