#asturian

Verbal words

This shit is making me hate kids so much it’s curing my pregnancy kink

do I even have to comment on this

Centuries of Bretons died to keep their language and culture free from French, just so this kid could steal their face and tag his work “jiggle my balls”

These “fanfictions” are merely, as far as I can tell, copy-pasted articles about the WHO. Possibly conspiracy-based but I didn’t actually read them closely.

Are we for real

The only two fics in my beautiful Kernowek (…Poor Parnell! My dead king!). Neither in the language.

So as you can see this is all horrible slop and, I think, should be stopped. Obviously I will always love ao3 for being a semi-anarchistic archive but I think in cases of blatantly obvious linguistic mistagging it doesn’t hurt anyone to just slide the fic into the right language.

I now have Asturian and Surit keyboards on my phone. The former is a minority language from northern Spain, that apparently was the official language of the one Christian kingdom that wasn't conquered by the Muslims - Asturias. I wanted to write an extended thank you to Asturian speakers at some point for using the letter ḥ in their writing, which is why I downloaded this keyboard in the first place. Because I'm a perfectionist, though, I wanted to get into the history of the language and it turns out perfectionism is the enemy of creation. Who knew. Anyway, thank you, Asturian speakers! ¡Gracies!

With that out of the way, I can get to Surit - a modern variation (or two, or more) of Aramaic.

Now look. I don't speak any modern version of Aramaic. However, they use an Alphabet that's slightly closer to the Hebrew one than to the Arabic one, so it actually wasn't too hard to learn to read it - outside of the occasional conflation of ܣ (s) and ܗ (h), or Ḥet, two Nuns or two Yuds. That's what happens when you use a cursive that connects all letters in a word.

Anyway, I can now read Surit. Which, to be fair, doesn't necessarily help much if I don't know the words, right? The fact I don't really know the vowel system (didn't bother with it really) does not help, nor does the fact I can really understand only one particular script which Google and Wikipedia use. However, when ignoring the pronunciation, Modern Aramaic isn't that different from the Talmudic Aramaic, and I can guess at words I don't know through context. Armed with that, I entered Wikipedia in Surit.

From what I've seen so far, it's not very rich in knowledge. But let's be honest here, it's in a language that has no state of its own. Native speakers of it exist around the Middle East as minorities in Arab countries (and in Israel, and possibly in Turkey and Iran as well I suppose), or around Australia and Germany, apparently? But there is no state where Surit has an official status. So it's not a surprise that their articles are short.

La Santa Compaña: The Legendary Procession of the Dead.

Cloaked in white, these ghostly figures march in silence, their candles flickering in the night, led by a living person cursed to guide them. This unfortunate soul carries a cross and a cauldron of holy water, unaware of their nightly role, waking up drained and with no memory of the procession.

Legend says the Santa Compaña appears to announce death, visiting the homes of those whose time has come. The scent of burning wax signals their arrival. Encountering this eerie parade is considered a bad omen, and those who see it must act quickly to avoid being cursed. Folk remedies include drawing protective symbols, carrying garlic or beetle horns, or even lying face down to escape the procession’s gaze.

Rooted deeply in Iberian mythology, the Santa Compaña shares echoes with other European legends like the Wild Hunt or the Irish Banshee, reflecting ancient beliefs about death and the restless dead. Its presence remains strong in Spanish folklore and has inspired countless stories, films, and music, keeping this chilling tale alive through generations.

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