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
Afroasiatic, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Babylonian, Berber, Chadic, Coptic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Hausa, Hebrew, Maltese, Omotic, Phoenician, Semitic, Suret, Tigrinya
The Woodcutters’ Tongue and the First Alphabet
What language did the Phoenicians speak? Phoenician, of course. In terms of linguistic classification, it
English, Turkish
Etna and Hallowe’en
Our journey to Erzurum and Kars has come to an end and given way to
Arabic, Aramaic, Ge’ez, German, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Turkish
The Straw That Learned to Write
There was in Proto-Indo-European a word *ḱolh₂mos, “straw, stalk.” From it descend Latin culmus, German
Arabic, Aramaic, Persian, Turkish
The Shape and the Name
Theodosiopolis changed hands with a regularity that must have exhausted its stonemasons: Byzantines, Arabs, Byzantines
Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, English, Greek, Latin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu
Abdallah, the Carpet, and the Cross
Two centuries back, then. In the eighth century the frontier town of Erzurum—Theodosiopolis, as it
Armenian, Hittite, Indo-European
Hayasa, or the Argument About a Name
In the second millennium BC the Hittites arrived in Anatolia. On the prevailing theory this