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
Proto-Turkic, Turkish
The Fish Strikes Back
An Exercise in Etymological Re-enactment and Aquatic Karma The study of language is eternally replete
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
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
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
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,
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