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🇫🇷 Nommer la beauté 🇮🇹 Definire la bellezza 🇪🇸 Apellidar la belleza Many deem French to be the world’s most beautiful language! Others might say Italian, or Spanish – both of these related to French as fellow Romance languages. Accordingly, the peoples who speak these languages are ferociously proud of their mother tongues. A greatContinue reading “Terming the beauty”

Atrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. The bitter truth is better than the sweetest lies. Memento mori. Remember that you must die. Non progredi est regredi. To not go forward is to go backward. Semper paratus. Always prepared. Per aspera ad astra. Through the thorns to the stars. Carpe diem. Seize the day. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus,Continue reading “Latin’s mighty lectitecture”

https://instagram.com/littledolma?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= When she went to school

Iceland / Ísland was founded over 1,000 years ago by exploring Vikings / Víkingar. Its population is descended mainly from those Norwegian seafarers, who had ventured even further to Greenland / Grænland and the coast of North America, which the Norse / Norðurlandabúar called Vinland / Vínland. The island of Iceland is located some 500Continue reading “The treasured case system of Icelandic”

The Alpine nation of Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. The Swiss abide by a foreign policy which deters them from getting involved with armed or political conflicts with other states. It is a self-imposed policy which has been highly successful at ensuring external security and promoting peace. Switzerland has not participated in a foreignContinue reading “The origins of Swiss neutrality”

Crossing Beringia: to Infinity and Beyond 30,000 or so years ago, a group of Orientalesque innovators broke away from their East Asian brothers and undertook exploration of Beringia. They had happened upon an intriguing landscape, a dip that had once been filled with water of the seas. It had opened up because of the iceContinue reading “Everyone thought they would burn in hell…”

The Amur River is the world’s tenth longest river. It flows along and aligns with the Chinese-Russian border, before turning northeast and eventually emptying into the Strait of Tartary, which connects the Sea of Okhotsk to the Sea of Japan, between the island of Sakhalin and the Siberian mainland. In Russian, it is referred toContinue reading “The Amur heartland”

The Celtic languages of Western Europe are the “Intuitive” Tongues. They were once widespread throughout Europe and even in central Anatolia – during the 1st millennium BC. Since ancient times, they have been marginalised to Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, the Isle of Man, Chubut Province (Y Wladfa), and Nova Scotia. Today, there are sixContinue reading “B rite • @”

Fact: Indic Muslims are the most horrifically oppressed people in the world. I am obsessed with Eastern Indic cultures, however. They are very inspiring. These peoples are mostly Muslim. The Indic or Indo-Aryan languages belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. They are the “Grand” Tongues. The Indo-European languages overall are theContinue reading “The “Embellishing” Tongues”