tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post5218000665025034080..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: Plantation of the Atlantic: The City of RegretErik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-12231383330860972902020-05-15T07:59:29.066-07:002020-05-15T07:59:29.066-07:00My bad on the "pictography" thing. I wan...My bad on the "pictography" thing. I wanted "epigraph," and it's probably as well I didnt' go that way. The people identifying words in Canary Island inscriptions don't seem to deserve being lumped in with Barry Fell and other nuts at the edges of epigraphy. Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-38316829555975151872020-05-09T22:48:58.588-07:002020-05-09T22:48:58.588-07:00I'll be reading this series with particular in...I'll be reading this series with particular interest... "no-one was going to conduct a coastwise expedition from Ceuta all the way to the mouth of the Senegal without a solid relationship with the Marinids" is an interesting proposition. If that holds up, it might suggest the Saadids' decision to try and conquer the gold had precedent.<br /><br />Obligatory linguist's objection: the Canary Island inscriptions are not pictographic; they use a consonantal alphabet ("abjad") derived from Libyco-Berber, like their mainland counterparts. The language(s)of the Canary Islands pose some unsolved problems: a lot of words are manifestly Berber, while a significant number look completely un-Berber. We might be dealing with a mixed language along the lines of Northern Songhay, or with several different languages that European writers conflated.<br /><br />There are occasionalm unsystematic references in Andalusi accounts to voyages that seem to involve the Canary Islands. They don't seem to have held any great attraction at that point, though.Lameen Souag الأمين سواقhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00773164776222840428noreply@blogger.com