#indoeuropeanlanguages — Public Fediverse posts
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Udhayanidhi Stalin releases the fourth volume of the Tamil-Indo-European Root Words Comparative Dictionary at an international conference. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/tamil-indo-european-root-words-dictionary-vol-4-ekh4z73k?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #UdhayanidhiStalin #TamilLanguage #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Dictionary
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The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages.
It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India – and it’ll be even harder to be sure we’ve got it right
#IndoEuropeanLanguages #Language #AncientHumans #Science #History
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How one language family took over the world: ancient DNA traces its spread
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00382-y
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🐲 The #ChineseLanguage and its #writingsystem ✍️ represent one of the most enduring and unique linguistic traditions in human history. Rooted in the Sino-Tibetan language family, #Chinese evolved in a completely different cultural and historical context compared to the #IndoEuropeanlanguages. In this post, we briefly explore its origins and development and its linguistic characteristics and significance:
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CW: Linguistics, fruit-based pun
It's an urban myth that the largest per capita producer of bananas in Europe is Iceland, but their ancestors in the Nordic Bronze Age were no stranger to bannaną.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną
#ProtoGermanic #NordicBronzeAge #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Puns #BananaBoats #VikingShips #StoneInscription #Linguistics
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27-Jul-2023
New insights into the origin of the #IndoEuropeanLanguages#Linguistics and #genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
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there's a perspective about it: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj2154 sadly paywalled though, as is the paper. plus something on the origins of #IndoEuropeanLanguages too. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818