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
Indo-Iranian, Ossetian, Saka, Scythian
The Saka: People of the Great Steppe
When we speak of the great nomads of antiquity, the Scythians are usually the first
Bashkir, English, Kazakh, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Turkic, Russian, Turkic, Turkish, Western Yugur
What Does the Torsyq Keep?
In the Museum of Almaty, we stumbled upon an artifact I had never heard of
Azerbaijani, Germanic, Kyrgyz, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Turkic, Slavonic, Turkic, Turkish
Birch in the Steppe
When I first laid eyes on this artifact in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, I
Akkadian, Arabic, Barabra, Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Khanty, Latin, Mansi, Nobiin, Proto-Uralic, Saami
Herding Cats through the Millennia
The history of our relationship with felines did not begin with mutual endearments, but rather
Greek
The Feline Olympus
Felines rule the entirety of Türkiye. In some regions they are more numerous, in others
Arabic, Avar, Chechen, English, Etruscan, German, Greek, Ingush, Latin, Phoenician, Russian, Spanish
The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from