Linguistics
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Our papers, out today in @nature, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus...
Happy Saraswati Puja! Here are some of the mondops from Jagannath Hall, University of Dhaka this year https://t.co/MZG2MhlOGm
English and Latin have a hidden connection that no one notices. If a word begins with ‘f’ in English, it begins with ‘p’ in Latin. Take the word “father.” The Latin for father is...
Guess why Sanskrit is so important for Indo Europeanists that they want to claim it came from Europe? This table was created from a PIE wordlist. That is -words created for made-up...
They most certainly did not. PIE had words for "yoke" (*yugóm), "wool" (*h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂), "horse" (*h₁éḱwos), "silver" (*h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm), "copper/metal" (*h₂éyos), "pole/thill" (*h₂iHseh...
The elephant in the room has an ant in its trunk Overlooked data from Tournebize et al. 2022 provides strong evidence to eliminate a foundational basis for the "Steppes ancestry b...
🚨SYNTHOPTIC WRITING🚨 A guide to my final uni project, a linguistic experiment about how the way we write can rewire how we think https://t.co/B4WeGMsigq
Again and again the same structure. "Kord/Kurd" is used alongside with "Pahlavi" (thus for Parthian). Faylee which means Pahli (Parthian), they call it also "Parthian-Kurdish", now...
If you look in a printed muṣḥaf today, and you're familiar with modern Arabic orthography, you will immediately be struck that many of the word are spelled rather strangely, and no...
The analogy between biological and linguistic evolution is far from perfect, and I think one thing that trips people up is that, while some biological phyla remain relatively "the...
Wilson takes note of the sporadic claims that Coptic survived as a spoken language in certain pockets of Upper Egypt into the 19th or 20th centuries or even the present day. He say...
Imagining an honest, genuinely inquisitive move to link the medieval to the "diverse" in historical linguistics—e.g. a study that examines to what degree British and American diale...
Brevitas — Why Is Latin Shorter Than English? An Illustrated Guide To Latin Inflection 🧵 https://t.co/ZlbAWdd2Bz
Something that slightly bothers me is how the adjective "High" in language names is often misunderstood—and often used, in the names of fictional languages—to mean "high class", "h...
Failed out of a maths degree and now shitposts about linguistics on the internet here. Those groups are all incredibly closely related to the point of speaking mutually intelligibl...
Is Tamil older than Sanskrit?There are two paths in approaching this question. Both paths lead to the same answer. First path is answering this question as a Hindu: According to...
Many people seem to believe that it was Arabic and Islam that made all the different languages and religions of the Levant disappear. Many of the languages and pegan religions disa...
A committee of the top Madrasahs in the Kurdistan region of Iraq published a syllabus that should be studied by students in the region order to maintain a high of scholarship, as i...
“The term "أحد" (Ahad) is a noun meaning "one." Its root is the letter "و" (waw), so it is said "وحد" (wahad) just as it is said "أحد" (ahad). The "waw" is transformed into a hamza...
Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization? A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have...
🧵 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘧: 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘩 https://t.co/WPzQvd5jsI
Some beautiful Egun (Ogu) names and their meanings.. ❤️❤️❤️😍 Discover the richness of Egun (Ogu) names and their meanings 🚶🏿♂️😘 https://t.co/qmbaDlvzec
A thread on the evolution of first name among the Marathas from 9th century onwards. 📜 [1/19] https://t.co/zOPL9LH6QG
Devanagari is an extremely elegant script. But this was never explained to us in school. A thread on the awesomeness that is devanagari. Let's start with the things that my teach...