throw < OE to twist, turn (transitivity??) And it was the wiki that said Early European Farmer. I vaguely thought either the wiki was wrong, or the original study used it as some sort of proxy population. As problems with simple tree models multiplied, historical linguists were increasingly burdened with ever more complex graphic representations of their ideas. In order to differentiate the Kiswahili-Bantu language He also suggests a relation to Proto-West Germanic *-astrij. Rather, its a Germanic *ruz or *raz aurochs, and ochs was added in German. (I dont otherwise participate Of course, you wont have large-scale maritime fisheries without reliable seaworthy vessels, but that sailing technology is generally older than the earliest records we have from various societies. The total number of Bantu languages is uncertain. NS is no less speculative than Nostratic. Palauans are free to do whatever the want with proto-Welsh phonemes as long as they preserve Dravidian orthography. being POSSIBLY genetically related to Volta-Congo as a whole. maybe we should use somewhat different terms: of course everything in the world is possibly (and likely) related. During the early second millennium BC, a Semitic people living and laboring in Egypt developed a script for their own language by exploiting a single component of the Egyptian writing system. @ Y. I like, in principle, the idea that linguistic differentiation occurred earlier and in a different location than the first attestation of each branch. In North Germanic all this stuff happened in historical times and is documented. Omitting the vocalic base would result in unpronounceable nonwords, that is, forms that are both phonologically and morphologically illegal. @drasvi I guess if youre getting a university degree in Africa, you may arrive at more practical ideas of how to improve your familys financial position than to pursue a lucrative linguistics career. The evidence from Wadi el-Hol suggests that development of the script was significantly motivated by written-communication needs among Semitic-speaking mercenaries serving in the Egyptian army. Arnold Zwickys list of blogs and resources Mehri and Harsusi kob dog form a cognate set (distinct from kalb). This is not a feature of the method, it is incompetence in its execution. perfect) in the non-r-branches. I was being too snarky about Swadesh, and got carried away. They go on to give a standard account of the branches of the Semitic family, and they seem to place the homeland of PS somewhere in eastern Syria. However, Gsiorowski instead suggests that *-rijaz is a native formation; he derives it from earlier *-azrijaz, which he etymologises as a zero-grade form of *-sr suffixed with *-ih, creating a suffix *-sr-ih for forming feminine agent nouns, which were then masculinised by attaching *-s. That said, if it really was formed on the pattern of the other pig words, I would expect pig as second compound element, not as first. llygoden logodenn, collective noun logod. >Actually, the Nilo-Saharan situation looks not unlike Ryans scenario: very old families some small, some quite large that have been in low-level contact since ever. @Hans, Has anyone ever proposed that another known branch of IE split before Anatolian? (Ive seen quite a number of plainly erroneous statements about individual Western Oti-Volta languages which would have been avoided if the authors had looked even a little at the related languages comparative work has unequivocal value in understanding contemporary phenomena. Interesting! Ethiopian Semitic languages exhibit a number of areal traits diffused from neighboring Cushitic languages. (Even without the Swadesh list specifically. Balashon It is funny if this niche is colonized by pez. Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal typology and linguistic reconstruction. So there you are. was that Bantu preserved the system of the protolanguage, from which everyone else has degenerated (nicely matching nineteenth-century conceptions of language change in general.) shifted to the more common inflection type -os : -okse-. The headline is The dying fish swims in water. (The article itself is behind a paywall.). [Morphology is not just affixation, either, and few languages, fortunately for the sanity and moral uprightness of comparativists, lack all morphology, including all derivational morphology. However. Shark also appears there alongside with the recently discussed coin: hle fish fr Oman in BRO 84f ist nicht nur hele = Hai wie in RHO II:13, sondern allgemeine Bezeichnung: sayd and hle are synonyms. I hadnt even realized Rilly ends a section with a stirring call the most urgent task for the progress of the Meroitic philology is not to resume the study of funerary texts or even to explore the most obscure passages of the royal texts, but to work a proper description of languages and dialects that are greatly endangered. And mentions that hes got Nyimang and the Higir dialect of Nara covered, but there are at least another 12 someone needs to claim. Logeion (Greek-to-English and Latin-to-English dictionary search) From which it follows that the Germanic languages originated in the North Sea. Nevertheless, Im sure that one can do valuable comparative work with materials gathered by others. Natrix In this case, if you decreed beforehand that h matched any velar or labial-velar it would give you the right answer for die, though not river; it would give you the wrong answer for the certain cognates Kusaal suo, Nawdm hmga hare.. And the separate question of whether these forms go with the vos or t pronoun. Rabbit isnt exotic everywhere, I guess. But the introgression of Levantine/North African DNA into Sudanese populations (seemingly meaning people whose genetics closely resembles people now in Nilotic speaking groups) by 5500 ya is intriguing. So: We found no genetic traces of early expansions out-of-Africa in present-day populations but found Arabians have elevated Basal Eurasian ancestry that dilutes their Neanderthal ancestry. Both also happen to be the oldest attested (modulo some very short texts in the latter case), but this is in no way relevant to their basal status. The term Hamito-Semitic remains in use in the academic traditions of some European countries, as well as in the official census of the government of India. * The author of all three works is a Uralicist, though, so his choice of PU reconstructions is likely to be much better than those of almost anyone who has tried to work on Indo-Uralic before. Googling an issue raised in the paper, the probably spurious Oropom language, I wound up with a reference to a paper by Lameen. All other messages and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily state or reflect those of languagehat.com. This ancestral population (origin of migration edge a in Figure 4) was approximately halfway between the common ancestor of indicine and the common ancestor of taurine. : ? Phytoplankton by definition makes its own oxygen; but the same holds for carbon dioxide, and the actual factor seems to be that nutrient-rich upwellings from the deep sea are inevitably cold. S4: a tree based on what they call multistate representation of data. Transblawg The Proto-Sinaitic character for /n/, on the other hand, was based on the Egyptian symbol representing /d/, a hieroglyph depicting a serpent, and received its Semitic value from the initial consonant in the Proto-Sinaitic word for snake.. Dravidian. oh. ), Anyway mainly popping in to note that if this is the Chez Hat African Macrofamilies thread by now, Id be interested in hearing what David E or others might have to say on Pozdniakovs recent paper on classifying Atlantic; comes out firmly on side of no unified Atlantic, but also still forming the western branches of Atlantic-Congo. Are these techniques also applicable to cultural features other than language? *ramc people). but for some reason dikobraz just didnt sound like a porcupine. One domain in which linguists invoke a particularly abstract level of representation is Semitic word formation. https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/30/R1/R17/6025449. The Untranslated Languages online You could just bang ahead with a mindless one-size-fits-all algorithm and hope that all the errors will cancel each other out, of course but realistically, lexicostatistics cant really tell you anything if you dont nearly know the answer already. Clothing can be masculine or feminine depending on who is wearing it , In Turkana, masculine, feminine and neuter are generally fixed properties of nouns, again with no obvious motivation in the case of sexless referents, but masculine can mean bigger and neuter smaller, while feminine in the case of normally-masculine vegetable referents can mean dead., but feminine can replace masculine for bigger things Aha! Sigh.). In fact, in some instances, like derived nominals or the high-register Latinate lexicon of English, children will master derivational processes only well into school age. DE is an exception, but in this case learning a foreign language did help, I think (thats why I thought about an African working with somethign like Hani). Not having any tutelage in linguistics, I have trouble making out what the descriptor topological stands in contradistinction to. There is no similarity between Arabic languages( languages of Assyrian and However, an abecedary found at the Palestinian site of Beth Shemesh, consisting of consonantal cuneiform characters like those in use at Ugarit, shows the same letter order as found in the Old South Arabian script. What I mean by creativity is any choice affected by a speakers preferences rather that dictated by grammar. May his pen rest in peace. an eudmonist (Faroese is closely-ish related to Icelandic, both historically and modernly.). Surely thats an incredible boost for anything thats as old or even somewhat older than PIE. Certainly, the total available biomass of salt-water fish is much greater. While it seems quite likely a priori that they are, it may never prove possible to demonstrate this with any rigour. A related root kad- means to incense, We have previously established on LH that *kad is the one that Nikolai Marr missed: sal, ber, yon, rosh, kad. Im fairly sure that a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the currently spoken Germanic languages based on Swadesh lists would show that English was basal. Rigorously , (From which it follows that the Germanic languages originated in the North Sea. An interesting feature of this Old South Arabian script is that the order of its letters departs from that of Phoenician and the consonantal script of Ugarit. (Overly phonetic features have occurred in other writing systems; Im thinking of kappa/qoppa in early Greek, or C/K/Q in early Latin.) That does sound like what I was envisioning, if thats a more accurate assessment of NS. Again, Im incompetent to assess that idea. I do not know which of these two they meant when they began using the compound. Tony Nadens dictionaries imply that fox in Ghanaian English actually means jackal, which would explain a lot: it wasnt that my informant was wrong, but that I misunderstood him. When some people in your ethnic confederation, like the Khazar Khaganate or the Siberian Khanate, say kala, and some say balk, thats a kalabalik (kalabaliikki). There is abundant evidence for the spread of languages like Mande, Songhay and Hausa over the last couple of millennia (or even later.) (We do not speak of Chomskyans. These emerge relatively early in Turkish compared with European or Semitic languages. Redescription of [further taxa] is an obvious step towards discriminating between these starkly different hypotheses. Or at least the first that has a name. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Sudanic_languages, When you click on a link, and really its one of the fifty tabs already open in your Firefox window, I again cant begin to assess the quality of the work, but heres a cognate-hunting paper for Birgid, described as the westernmost of the Northern East Sudanic group, and Daju, considered quite distant from NES. I do wonder to what extent Akkadian, or a direct descendant thereof, was still the spoken language in the Neo-Assyrian and/or Neo-Babylonian empires and if so, how much relation it held to the written language of the contemporary cuneiform tablets. In his font the characters are slightly distinct, but I dont know enough to tell which Unicode symbol, if any, is appropriate here. Durch die Jonas-Legende bedingt ist es im MSA speziell der Walfisch und mit dieser Sonderbedeutung im arabischen Osten blich. 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