Linguistics
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Why Telugu is a Daivabasha (divine language) A thread 🧵 | | {Below}
Women speak about 7,000 words a day - Men average just over 2,000. https://t.co/iRtmbGBxhv
Old English had two words for "army", those being "fyrd" and "here". After the military reforms of King Alfred the Great they began being used less strictly, sometimes interchangea...
Tired old academics don’t want you to know this, but every single Indo-European language has a cognate of the word Aryan. Indo-Iranians used it to describe free and noblemen, all...
I’ve begun to think of ‘lol’ as sneaky use of word magic. Portal creation. Don’t judge me for linking buzz feed, it’s just to show how crazy prevalent & varied the usage has be...
When Mahamandaleshwara Gonarasa Bhupati displayed extraordinary valor on battlefield, the Chalukya Army expressed gratitude & cheered: "Bappu Bappu, Majha Bappu!" (Father! Father!...
revisiting my greatest thread: [thread] The word “nigga” is not racist. A look at semantics, coreferentialism, nonperjorative correlates, and pragmatics. To begin, let us look...
THE PHRYGIAN LANGUAGE (1) #Phrygian is part of the Indo-European language group. This language is poorly documented. The little knowledge that we have of the Phrygian language i...
Ever noticed? We say M for Million, but K for Thousand. Not T. Discover why in this thread:
Pre-axial shift, although I think it may have been even more pronounced! https://t.co/eE6P3FOpBz
This makes more sense for me, breaking it up and getting an alternate etymology of the word ‘Celebrity’ : - a fractured or divided tumor- ... tumors often dispense toxic environmen...
Random find from 1700s- the word चकमक means flint. In persian, घिलमान-इ-चकमक meant elite guards armed with flintlock muskets. So marathi letters of battles which report "चकमकी" a...
The Huaorani tribe, also known as Waorani or Waos, is an indigenous group residing in Eastern Ecuador within the Amazon rainforest. This isolated tribe, consisting of approximately...
Classical Chinese as a spoken language: an enquiry. (1/n) https://t.co/QYH7EzZ9wJ
I often describe Pahlavi as the worst writing system ever invented. Let's take a perfectly-serviceable writing system for a completely different language (Aramaic) and adapt it fo...
Where does the English Word 'GOD' Originate? The Greek letter G (Gamma) is in the form of a Mason’s Square. The letter 0 (Omicron) is a Circle, and the letter D (Delta) a Triangle...
Did you know? 🌺The Vedic culture recognises 4 types of speech.🌺 The Ganapati Upanishhad finds place in the Atharva Veda. We find a verse of reference here which denotes the 4 sta...
@MatKilat2023 @zaeidalmiskeen @BUNDER072 @AfthabFyzoo @athariwasalafi @xavierjp__ Okay bro check these scans, and we have Ibn Hajar al-Haytami and Abu Shamah al-Maqdisi as well, bo...
(1/12) Modern #Germanic languages are fascinating, but probably just as fascinating can be which Germanic #languages have survived today only in remnants. And these lost #ancient G...
See how folks fall to tamil malice. When presented with "how can you thrust hindi down our throats?" you @tanvi_madan either say "well why can't u learn Hindi? Hindi is a good l...
THREAD - The Philology of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (1) The relationship of language and meaning is an interesting one. The famous The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in its 'strong' f...
What renders a qirāʾah (Quranic reading tradition) sound, and what renders it šāḏḏ (anomalous). The Islamic science of qirāʾāt has had a clear answer to this question for centuries...
Sooo… Like… 🧵 Knowledge Frequency Information is a frequency.. I know it sounds odd, But here’s a example, Words are just vehicles of information through sound. We don’t actual...
My model of the Out of India migrations of the Ānavas (Proto-Iranian-Armenian-Greek-Albanian branches) based on Genetic, Linguistic, Archeological and historical evidences. Please...
