Linguistics Section

The head of the section Prometheus marked all posts that mention certain languages or their groups (families). You can look at them, or you can just dive into the fascinating world of linguistics in a row.

Afroasiatic Akkadian Albanian Amharic Arabic Aramaic Armenian Avar Azerbaijani Babylonian Barabra Bashkir Belarusian Bengali Berber Bulgarian Celtic Chadic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cushitic Czech Dutch Egyptian English Etruscan Finnish Finno-Ugric French Georgian German Germanic Greek Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hittite Hungarian Hurrian Icelandic Indo-European Indo-Iranian Ingush Irish Italian Japanese Karelian Kazakh Khanty Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Latin Lithuanian Maltese Mansi Mongolian Nenets Nobiin Nogay Norwegian Old Church Slavonic Old Prussian Omotic Ossetian Persian Phoenician Polish Proto-Balto-Slavic Proto-Germanic Proto-Indo-European Proto-Slavic Proto-Turkic Proto-Uralic Romance Romanian Russian Saami Saka Sanskrit Scythian Semitic Serbo-Croatian Slavonic Slovak Spanish Sumeric Suret Swedish Tatar Tigrinya Tocharic Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Welsh Yakut Yiddish

Caviar to the General

English, French, German, Greek, Indo-European, Italian, Latin, Persian, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Slavic, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish

Caviar to the General

The Liver That Turned into Roe Reader, I reread my own blog. An old post

A share of the pie

Chinese, English, Greek, Latin, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Tatar, Turkic, Turkish

A share of the pie

One of the quickest ways to absorb everyday digital vocabulary is to switch your devices

Let It Be

English, Indo-European, Latin, Turkic, Turkish

Let It Be

Picture a classic dramatic moment in English literature or film—say, someone staring up at the

On Ways, Quirks and Reversed Perspective

German, Old Church Slavonic, Russian

On Ways, Quirks and Reversed Perspective

Inscrutable, as we are so frequently reminded, are the ways of Providence. Having duly paid

A Style Guide to the Russian North

Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Finnish, Finno-Ugric, French, German, Greek, Karelian, Latin, Nenets, Norwegian, Persian, Proto-Slavic, Proto-Uralic, Romance, Russian, Saami, Samoyedic, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish

A Style Guide to the Russian North

Having taken a brief inventory of my journal, I realised, with a touch of chagrin,

A Guide to Winged Angelology

Akkadian, Aramaic, English, Hebrew, Russian

A Guide to Winged Angelology

This wooden cherub of nineteenth-century vintage once adorned a house transported from the abandoned settlement

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