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Serapii, the kanji it sidesteps (治), and 32,500 more words are on learn.japanology.nl/? utm_source=mastodon. Try the quiz and see if you remember it tomorrow. We start with the easy stuff, even when the word of the day looks intimidating. #Japanese #LearnJapanese #Loanwords #JLPT #WordOfTheDay #Japanology #Katakana #Gairaigo
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Interesting language fact of the day: #English "kowtow" /ˌkaʊˈtaʊ/ could, orthography-wise, be pronounced very closely to the current #MandarinChinese pronunciation of its origin word, 叩头 kou4tou4 [kʰoutʰou] (disregarding tone). Compare English "tow" v. 'to draw' with the US pronunciation /toʊ/.
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Bjørn, R. (2022). Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia: Six new perspectives on prehistoric exchange in the Eastern Steppe Zone. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, E23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.16 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #IndoEuropean #History #Histodon #Histodons #Linguistics #Archaeology #Genetics #BronzeAge #CentralAsia #Loanwords #Uralic #Turkic #OldChinese #Language #Languages #Culture #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodon @archaeodons @science
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