tonogenesis

languages and scripts

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Old Chinese 烏弋山離 ‘Alexandria’ looks hella Slavic. Han dynasty people be like “Olekszánlyja”

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kinda funny that eden in sumerian means steppe

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@cobbaltt @amazonmilkfrog Tsakonian too

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@janwehner @uaRudra “they both border a country which contains a region called Galicia” doesn’t quite work as well as a joke

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Russian and Portuguese sound the same because they’re both next to Galicia

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@piquiliguardi Seems pretty ubiquitous in Germanic, Slavic, and Romance. Arabic has شخص and ناس. Another interesting parallel with monde and cosmos is that the wor- in world originally meant man. From the same word as the were- in werewolf.

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Mariupol Greek is easily my favorite modern dialect

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@artchimes512 I was thinking the same

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@Sahagkib https://t.co/HPTLbKczn0

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@Sahagkib tfw they both really just sound celtic

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@haravayin_hogh

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@hhpapazian damn which part was eastern

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@sharkafilipova @hhpapazian Օպրավդու բիխոմ ժիլի վ պոզեմսկեմ րայի

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@hhpapazian Sorry that was trolling. Is there some other model for the development of the alphabet I’m unaware of? I have my own points of contention with the standard model, so I’d love to read about any other.

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@hhpapazian Akhper, kaghapar chunem inchi masin g’khosis

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@cobbaltt gone to nasal heaven

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@hhpapazian It’s all the same Sinaitic turquoise miner alphabet anyways

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@hhpapazian Some of the best orthographies in the world are Latin. German, Vietnamese. English is basically perfect, Chomsky was right about that.

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@hhpapazian what’s your problem with latin 😭