A new language blog, الف لسان mille langues χιλιοι γλωσσῶν, looks very promising. The first post begins:
A thousand and one tongues shall be the name of this polyglot blog (though most of the writing will be in English, I hope to have snippets from numerous languages), and this tithe of the myriad manners of expression upon the earth shall consist of lesser-known languages, dialects, creoles, “extinct” and contact languages. My personal contributions will gravitate toward languages from majority arabophone countries, though I invite the contributions of others from spheres and climes beyond my reach and ken.Check out the Nubian text and khawaji's attempted decipherment. Welcome, and happy blogging! Posted by languagehat at December 9, 2007 07:52 PM
Please do not ignore my chinese based language blog
Posted by: Canonling at December 10, 2007 07:40 AMχιλιοι γλωσσῶν ??
Posted by: anon at December 10, 2007 11:21 AMYou can use genitive following the number; Thucydides has χίλιοι Μακεδόνων.
Posted by: language hat at December 10, 2007 12:34 PMOh, wait, you mean it should be χίλιαι, don't you? Yeah, I guess it should. My Greek's a little rusty.
Posted by: language hat at December 10, 2007 12:37 PMMy classical Greek is rusty, but Thucydides's "χιλίους Μακεδόνων" is more specific than "a thousand Macedonians" -- it's rather "a thousand [of the | among the] Macedonians. "A thousand [of the world's] languages" makes sense, but it's not a literal translation of "mille langues".
Posted by: βπ at December 10, 2007 02:10 PMAh, you're doubtless right. I hope khawaji drops by to address the issue.
Posted by: language hat at December 10, 2007 05:34 PMLameen Souag has been linking to it for a few days under the name of "Alf Lisan".
Posted by: David Marjanović at December 10, 2007 08:46 PM...and of course I just might have noticed that the address is elflisan.blogspot.com, instead of selling my great insight as something new. Hmmm.
Posted by: David Marjanović at December 12, 2007 08:55 PMMy utmost apologies for not noticing the attention that my humble blog had garnered so far (I am quite surprised and honored to have been mentioned in so illustrious a blog as language hat already), and the controversy of χιλιοι γλωσσων is something I should not have allowed to lie dormant for so long - I will hide behind the excuse that I am in Darfur and have limited internet access. But I address the issue in full in my latest post, which I hope will satisfy the dubious.
Posted by: خواجي at January 12, 2008 07:32 AM