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.

English, French, Turkish

Omit Needless Words?

Somebody wrote please RSVP to me the other day, and it occurred to me that

English, French, German, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Slavonic

Pontificating on a Mountain Pass

Today we found ourselves in the Pontic Mountains—the ones above the Black Sea, which the

Celtic, English, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Latin, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Sanskrit, Turkish, Welsh

Wire, Enamel, and Cauldron

In the museum today I came upon the term for the eastern Turkish jeweller’s craft

English, Greek, Russian, Turkish

The Chorus That Stayed Behind

Coming into central Trabzon from the west, the traveller is met by these two dancers—metal,

Dutch, English, German, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Old Prussian, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Slavonic, Spanish, Welsh

Hippo, Cheese, and Kvass

Good day to you. Missed us? Here is another etymological conjuring trick. Have you had

Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Georgian, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Russian, Semitic, Serbo-Croatian, Slavonic, Turkish, Yiddish

A Universal Lament

Laugh if you like, but I have watched Wednesday—the Tim Burton series about the Addams

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