Language History
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“Tamil is the oldest language of the world” is the well oiled evangelical propaganda for Tamil lands. If Tamil is the oldest language that means that it is older than Devbhasha of...
The only way this is defensible is to claim that Tamil is the oldest among the widely spoken languages. (as Sanskrit is not spoken widely) But even that's debatable as the Sangam...
One of the great monuments of human language history: the 18th century Qianlong Pentaglot Dictionary 御製五體清文鑑 Yuzhi Wuti Qing Wenjian. Its lemmata are recorded in 5 language...
Yoruba Community In The Heart Of Igbo-Speaking Delta Produces Own Bible, Dictionary A veritable resource for students of linguistics, Oloza of Ugbodu says A Thread! Retwee https:...
Turns out every "substratum" feature in Sanskrit that was allegedly due to Dravidian has occurred independently in other IE languages who have no contact with Dravidian. In short,...
Listened to a talk by Balram Shukla where he defends Sanskritization of Indian languages in a novel way "तत्समीकरण भारतीय भाषाओं की प्रवृत्ति है" तत्समीकरण is not a brahminical v...
Do you know! That the A.M & P.M terms which we often use for time of the day are NOT originated from Latin but from ‘SANSKRIT’. As we all know that the 12-hour clock is a time c...
Before 1949 Mandarin was only spoken in Manchuria and Beijing city(essentially a Manchu enclave). So what did the Chinese speak then? The masses all spoke their own vernacular lang...
The Egyptian language is one of the oldest recorded languages known alongside Sumerian, it is related to the Berber and other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. https://t...
