Historical sociolinguistics has long focused on medieval and early modern texts. This study breaks that boundary, applying variationist methods to Old Babylonian letters from 4,000 years ago — showing how patterns of linguistic variation already reflected geography, chronology, and scribal practice.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N1.ID792
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A new issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics with papers on Finnish, English, Greek, two on Spanish, and five book reviews has just been published! 😊 #HistoricalSociolinguistics
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