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 Barabra Bashkir Belarusian Bengali Berber Bulgarian Celtic Chadic Chechen Chinese Coptic Crimean Tatar Cushitic Czech Dutch Egyptian English Etruscan Finnish Finno-Ugric French Ge'ez Georgian German Germanic Greek 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 Samoyedic Sanskrit Scythian Semitic Serbo-Croatian Slavonic Slovak Spanish Sumeric Suret Swedish Tatar Tigrinya Tocharic Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Welsh Western Yugur Yiddish

English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish

All in One Piece

This post owes its existence to a Russian-language Telegram channel called Azokhen Vey, whose author

Arabic, Aramaic, Crimean Tatar, Greek, Hebrew, Kazakh, Mongolian, Persian, Phoenician, Semitic, Tatar, Turkic, Turkish

Scratch a Moscow Street, Find a Tatar

“Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar”—a line variously pinned on Napoleon and

Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit, Turkish

A Castle Named After a Bowl

Last time it was İznik and its two borrowed names. Now the last of the

Akkadian, Arabic, Armenian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Turkish

Not Made in Damascus

Last time we went through the Kütahya crockery and the words hiding inside it. But

Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Persian, Polish, Proto-Indo-European, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Ukrainian

Sherbet, Julep, and Hand Grenade

Last time we worked out where Kütahya’s lemon yellow came from. Now to the neighbouring

Arabic, English, Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, Turkish

The Saint Who Was a Noun

Every visitor to Hagia Sophia arrives, sooner or later, at the same question, usually asked

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