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 Berber Bulgarian Celtic Chadic Chechen Chinese Coptic Cushitic Czech Dutch Egyptian English Etruscan Finnish Finno-Ugric French Ge'ez 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 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 Samoyedic Sanskrit Semitic Serbo-Croatian Slavonic Slovak Spanish Sumeric Suret Swedish Tatar Tigrinya Tocharic Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Welsh Western Yugur Yakut Yiddish

The Fish Strikes Back

Proto-Turkic, Turkish

The Fish Strikes Back

An Exercise in Etymological Re-enactment and Aquatic Karma The study of language is eternally replete

An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples

Czech, Hindi, Indo-Iranian, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Ossetian, Persian, Polish, Proto-Balto-Slavic, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Sanskrit, Ukrainian

An Etymological Dessert from Persian Apples

On Ribs, Heroes, and the Surprising Geography of Language Summer is upon us, bringing with

From Ice Cream to the Messiah

Chinese, English, French, German, Germanic, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Turkic, Spanish, Turkish

From Ice Cream to the Messiah

The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to

Celestial Etymology

German, Greek, Latin, Persian, Proto-Balto-Slavic, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Turkish

Celestial Etymology

As a recent discourse happily brought us to matters of the firmament, it seems a

Under the Sky of Tengri

Czech, English, German, Greek, Kazakh, Latin, Persian, Polish, Proto-Balto-Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Turkic, Slavonic, Turkic, Turkish

Under the Sky of Tengri

In one of the halls of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts in Almaty,

The Secrets of the Powder Box

Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, English, Georgian, German, Hindi, Kazakh, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Slavic, Russian, Turkic, Turkish, Urdu

The Secrets of the Powder Box

In the Museum of Almaty, amidst a display dedicated to the city in the latter

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