Linguistics
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🧵The Esoteric Meaning of 'Q'🧵 'Q' is not only a letter, but is the vestige of a very early occult symbol for Venus. In earlier writing, the line crossing the circle was directly c...
Looks like references to "Larestani" have been removed from the Wikipedia article for the language. Guess I should explain the naming controversy surrounding the language. 🧵 https:...
🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 Did Proto-Indo-European borrow words from Proto-Semitic? Short answer: No Long answer: https://t.co/VAXVuGSytI Medium length answer: thread 🧵👇 https://t.co/ceWI...
Have you ever grabbed your favourite soap box and wondered why the word “soap" sounds so similar in different languages? The more we delved into it, the more fascinated we became....
I am extremely happy to be able to announce that my doctoral thesis, entitled "Our ˁirbīt is not like your ˁarabiyya! – Linguistic and socio-political change in Late Antique South...
My Response to His Royal Majesty, Ooni of Ife About His Speech that the Igbo Race Migrated from Ile-Ife. I am Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro, an Igbo linguist and cultural advocate. I read...
read very interesting and pretty convincing theory on the origin of 韓 in 韓國 from a youtube comment lol basically 韓 used to be pronounced *gˤar in late han chinese and meant t...
🏜️ ZION - in The Bible 📘 The word ZION has been deeply rooted in our memory/Neuro-Connect with the thought of some hill or mountain in Jerusalem.. 👇 Short Thread covering: Defi...
@JoraShankara @Sapratha Someone brought this to my attention recently -- it is a large monograph -- caveat -- read some parts closely and skimmed through others. Briefly: 1. Curren...
The work 'The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World' authored by noted Indo-Europeanists JP Mallory and DQ Adams lists the reconstructed word...
An Akkadian Empire Seal featuring an interpreter of the Meluhhan language (of the Indus) named Su-ili-Sunn The seal reads: 'su-i-li-su / eme-bal me-luh-ha', which translates as: '...
⭐️An Interlinguistic Pun in the Quran⭐️ In surah 3:35, the mother of Maryam says she has dedicated what is in her womb to Allah The wording is “Inni NAZARTU laka maa fee batnee”....
As part of our study of the vulgar register of Late Old IA we found the Skt cognates & attempted identification based on that & a lexicographic search. We paste that below: devAnAm...
This seems to be the massive book form treatment of Zoller's hypothesis. While I have not read the book, I have read his paper on the same. Entirely independently, based on some ob...
Infinitive Verb in Igbo Language: a Grammatical Perspective. In this article, we are going to discuss infinitive verb in Igbo language. What is infinitive? Infinitive is the bas...
Struggling with the different genders? This is how you fix it:
Americans born after 1975-80ish generally have much less interesting and distinctive voices than Americans born before. Sudden sharp drop in regional accents, less variety in timbr...
“The research is helping to pin down where the Tocharians were located in the period between 3,500 BC, when they may have left their ancestral home, and their first written history...
An Indo-Iranic-Dravidian conundrum noted by FC Southworth in 1979 - The disputed direction of borrowing in the AIT/AMT universe of a reflexive pronoun deeply embedded into the Dr...
there's a branch of semiotics (study of signs, symbolism, and more broadly: non-verbal communication) that deals exclusively with how people act in space, distances between people,...
It's Ahiré a shortened form of title Ahirrao Maratha TITLE Used by Chalukya & Rashtrakuta KULA Marathas. There are Ahir title holder Brahmins,sonars,kunbis,shimpis from Khandesh d...
That’s not at all what it says. Not even close, but nice try manipulating for suckers. If curious, see next tweet. https://t.co/CmfLJJjcqO
New paper in Science magazine concludes that "Indo-European" languages emerged 8k years ago i.e. 3k years before earlier linguistic theories. It also suggests southern origin in Mi...
The origin of X. The symbol of X has been used in many fields, from algebra to science, astronomy and spirituality. It has diverse meanings, mystical significance and linguistic i...
