Linguistics
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@dxrsam_0 👍 you got to the essence of what was my subcurrent musing in that twt. However, I'm not sure if this idea goes back to P-Indo-Hittite or even IE proper or even I-Ir+B-Sl...
Many places in Nairobi and wider Kenya derive their origins from Maasai words. But what do these names reveal about the history, geography and history of Kenya? What do they tea...
What kind of world do you think your great grandchildren will live in?
The Masonic (G) 🧵 In the English Alphabet, G is the Seventh Letter but the letter "G" or Gamma in Greek and in the Semitic Tongues (Gimel) is not Seventh but the Third Letter. "G"...
Short Thread 🧵 Linguistic Subtlety in Q17;97 In Q2:18 & 2:171 , Allah says صُمٌّۢ بُكْمٌ عُمْىٌۭ (deaf, dumb, blind) The three are only mentioned together like this in one oth...
European languages surpass all the other languages in their degree of literary sophistication, number of words and concepts, and grammatical skills. BUT you are not allowed to make...
The letters "ough" can be pronounced at least 8 different ways in English. How did that happen?! https://t.co/DoIVcNuit0
After IE, the Austronesian language family is another for which a fairly good linguistic history that aligns with other material sources exists. The genetic evidence supports an or...
This thread by Bayt Al Fann is doing the rounds about the early collection of the Quran. It presents the traditionally accepted Islamic narrative. But how does modern scholarship t...
Genetic Ancestry of Russians. It's interesting to note that European Russians can have upto 11-13% North East Asian (Uralic) ancestry easily. https://t.co/fc7caKgu0T
TLDR: A speculative hypothesis: Turkic language originated in the Eastern BMAC populations. Warning: what follows is a long thread on this matter
@kadagxwaday @PhDniX Off topic, but I've read that Persian bacca بچّه was possibly borrowed from an Indic language itself. Compare with Hindi bacchā (Skt. vatsaka) for "cow's calf....
That's also a jab at Marxists though. Maybe one of the authors is a disgruntled "Bolshevik" like Zenoviev.😂 But I noticed that sometimes their text has what I assume to be mistakes...
Correspondence in the tripartite division of society in Vedic India and in Mazdaean Iran. https://t.co/jkuVHuWRJ3
Is English your 2nd language? And you wanna sound like a native? These 18 tips will help you: (coming from a BA English language student)
The name of River Thames comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gives us the Sanskrit word tamas (तमस्) meaning “dark.” It’s an allusion to the river’s murky color than...
A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat (St John...
@dxrsam_0 @Atharvvv01 Off topic, but do Westerners derive आशुशुक्षणिः (epithet of Agni) from शुच् or शुष्? I ask because some people read आङि शुचेः सनश्छन्दसि while others read आङि...
[Aryan ethnonyms of Finno-Ugric peoples]
Why are the same words spelled differently in American and British English? https://t.co/vT5PaBXyV6
"1. Any object, when its internal benchmarks are destroyed, melts into light. Any object has light inherent in its structure. https://t.co/sD6jgWOIrO
@Rtam86418021 @dxrsam_0 The existence of single "Paishachi" language itself is questionable and the Grierson's claims that it was the precursor of modern Dardic language are even m...
@schachin @cemper ? They are based on language models, derived from corpuses of content. Things like Wiki (factual), news (factual/perspective) etc. Break away from those, and the...
@cemper According to "experts", you can do it by looking at the commonality of pairings. As the scripts tend to use predictive processes for word selection, all you have to do is s...