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The would-be should-be “philia” for all people with… … exceptional taste, of course! The Svan language is related to Georgian / Kartuli / ქართული ენა / kartuli ena. Georgian is spoken by a few million -about 4- people in the Caucasian Eurasian country of Georgia / საქართველო / Sakartvelo and in pockets of neighbouring countries.Continue reading “S v a n o p h i l i a”

WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE? They did not look much like the Turkic peoples of today, who are believed to be principally East Asian in ethnic origin. They emerged 60-70,000 years ago from a union between rebellious Pre-Nostratic underlings and Pre-Austronesians of high birth. The first Austronesians, in turn, had emerged from the original OrientalesquesContinue reading “The Original Pinnaculars”

Tsez / Dido is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken the southwest of the Russian Federation, and in adjacent parts of Georgia. Within the Russian Federation, it is spoken in a number of villages in the Tsuntinsky district in the Republic of Dagestan. Within Georgia, it is spoken in Ibtsokhi village in the Kvareli district ofContinue reading “Getting Tsezy”

the grammatical case in Latin: in German: in Russian: in Estonian: in Finnish: in Hungarian: Grammatical cases are notoriously tricky feats to master. Many of the world’s most difficult languages to learn are so because of their rich case systems that foreigners just cannot get their heads around. The overall collective of grammatical cases inContinue reading “Grammatical case & concentric nuance”

The Kusunda language of Nepal is one of those mysterious languages that has been classified as a language isolate. Kusunda / Kusanda / Ban Raja / mihaq is also known as gilɐngdəy məhyɐq gipən / ‘language of the kings of the forest’. It is spoken by less than 100 people as of 2014. टिक सवट्टैContinue reading “Fading out in Kusunda”

The four elements are reflective of something: the four stages of the history of the cognition of the human race. The fifth stage has just begun. Here is where we should make it five, adding… #electricity ⚡️ Welcome to the Electrical Age, b*tchezz! The Aerial / Air Age 💨 The Aqueous / Water Age ☔️Continue reading “The four ages of human cognition”

The Oriental languages of East Asia are the “Efficient” Tongues. They all buzz about something related to efficiency. They are all Super-Tongues which streamline speakers for acquiring reasoning aptitude. Speakers also all “slay” over different natural phenomena: Chinese speakers over natural peculiarities 🏞; Tibetan speakers over ground and earth 🤎; Burmese speakers over trees 🌳;Continue reading “Hangu-go”

A sprachbund is a group of languages that share features resulting to geographical proximity and language contact. They may or may not be related. Such features often give the false appearance of relatedness. One such instance of a sprachbund creating a false appearance of relatedness is between Mongolic and Turkic. The Mongolic language family includes…Continue reading “Why the Altaic languages are just a sprachbund”

belis/beles sheep; belisho/belishu sheep (pl.) shadi/bula monkey; shadimuts/bulamo monkeys tshiir/tshigir/tsigir goat; tshiirisho/tshigirisho/tsigira goats huk dog; hukai/huka dogs bush cat; bushongo cats buwa cow; buweynts cows utt camel; uttaints camels tshiyar/har ox; tshiyarisho/haro oxen tshindar bull; tshindarisho bulls busroosro calf; busrowants calves hasto elephant; hastumuts elephants haghur horse; haghurisho horses sar rabbit; saro rabbits hal fox;Continue reading “The difference with Burushaski”

I remember reading about the assassination of Iran’s military mastermind General Qassem Suleimani / Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds force, in 2020. I began to wonder exactly why Iran is so resented in the West. What exactly is our problem with them? I wanted to know about the peculiarities of their role as anContinue reading “Blast those pesky Persians”