Camunic rock art

The ancient Camunni were among the greatest producers of rock art in Europe, as shown by the famous rock engravings of Valcamonica (Camonica Valley) in north Italy. They inhabited the Val Camonica during the Iron Age (1st millennium BC). They were conquered by Rome at the beginning of the 1st century AD, and were graduallyContinue reading “Camunic rock art”

Celebrating Finno-Ugric vigour

The Uralic or Uralian -even Finno-Samoyedic- languages are a small language family of the world spoken by approximately 25 million people – although containing 38 languages – predominantly in Northern Eurasia. Hungarian alone accounts for more than half of the family’s speakers. Second and third are Finnish and Estonian, respectively. Other significant Uralic languages areContinue reading “Celebrating Finno-Ugric vigour”

The world’s top 10 most superior tongues

Super-Tongues are those very special languages in the world which possess core characteristics -from ideologies, grammatical tricks, to inspiring structures- that endow speakers with dramatically enhanced capabilities or strengths! This is a re-assessment, since there has surely been some shifts since the first “measurement” I did 2/3 years ago, which produced the following results… 10.Continue reading “The world’s top 10 most superior tongues”

Making Mongolian fun?

Mongolian is not a fun language. Well, it could be, or it can be, as can any language, but the Mongolian people are honestly just of such a dark disposition, and they have an imperial history that is unfortunately soaked in the blood of the tens of millions of Eurasians they slaughtered in conquest (OkayContinue reading “Making Mongolian fun?”

5 feelings in 11 languages

(Idea from Kaixo Linguistik on Instagram.) I am… 🇲🇽 Estoy… 🇧🇷 Estou… 🐱 Estic… 🇫🇷 Je suis… 🇮🇹 Sono… 🇩🇪 Ich bin… 🇳🇱 Ik ben… 🇸🇪 Jag är… 🇨🇳 我… Wǒ… 🇸🇦 انا ana… happy 🇲🇽 feliz 🇧🇷 feliz 🐱 feliç 🇫🇷 heureux 🇮🇹 felice 🇩🇪 glücklich 🇳🇱 vrolijk 🇸🇪 lycklig 🇨🇳 高兴 gāoxìng 🇸🇦Continue reading “5 feelings in 11 languages”

In Ukrainian…

Read more of my work with Ukraine here. Did you know that Russian and Ukrainian are actually very closely related languages? The reality being that, less than one millennium ago, they were one and the same language along with Belarusian: Old East Slavic / словеньскыи ꙗзыкъ / slovenĭskyi jazykŭ, used during the 10th-15th centuries byContinue reading “In Ukrainian…”

The effervescent power of the Hellenic alphabet

[ Mary Katrantzou SS20 “Wisdom Begins in Wonder” ] The acutely evocative, effervescent power of the Hellenic alphabet exists in contrast, or in complement, to the Depths of the Latin Alphabet – about which I have already composed a post. The Ancient Greeks are renowned for their wisdom and for their corresponsive academic and culturalContinue reading “The effervescent power of the Hellenic alphabet”

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