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/ɕɐɕɑːŋkɐh/, /kesaʊŋkʊs/ | Interested in Indo-Aryan, Romanic & Germanic linguistics, Typography, and Cartography | 🎓 BU'25 @bualumni

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Descendants of the ablative is actually found in some Romance language! Tho it has usually been turnt into a new gender (usually called “neuter”, not to be confused with the Latin neuter) See for example Asturian (masculine -u < -um vs “neuter” -o < -ō) or in Neapolitan
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#Konkani (near)-homophones for the day- ⊛ आंगण Angânn /äŋgʌɳ/ [n.] "courtyard" ("pátio") ⊛ आंगवण Angvânn /äŋgʋʌɳ/ [f.] "a religious vow" ("voto religoso")
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#Konkani borrowed <lh> and <nh> from the #Portuguese orthography, but they make completely different sounds compared to their Portuguese values. Konkani doesn't have the /ʎ/ sound and the /ɲ/ sound is not phonemic, so <lh> and <nh> were repurposed for aspirates /lʱ/ and /nʱ/.
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The best advertising I’ve ever seen in favour of Catalan replacing <ll> with <lh>
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Also the Konkani value of <ch> is /t͡ɕ/ as opposed to Modern Portuguese's /ʃ/. Worth remembering that the first Konkani orthography (based on Portuguese) was formulated in the early 17th century when Portuguese <ch> still made the /t͡ʃ/ sound which close enough to /t͡ɕ/.
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Languages of Switzerland
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KB@Kar_Bharadwaj27 Aug 2025
We can see a mention of "ದೀನಾರ" (Dīnāra/Denari) in Old Kannada work Vaddaradhane. This Dīnāra is currency or coins which was from Roman times and Roman empire. This also proves that Roman Denaris were very much popular in India!
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Cat names from Old Irish legal texts: Bréone = ‘little flame’ Cruibne = ‘little paws’ Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’ Méone = ‘little meow’ 🎨Book of Kells. Source: Kelly, Early Irish Farming p123. #NationalCatDay 🐈
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@wylfcenOct 29
STOP saying “diacritic.” The native English word is “staffmark.”
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Some reflexes of Latin dēnārius "tenfold, denary, an ancient coin" (m.) 🪙🪙💶, in modern #Romanic languages.
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The reformed Rômi alphabet for the #Konkani language-
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When to write {ch/çh} and {z}
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Forgot to add the case of -Vnv or -Vnv-. In this case the n always represents the nasalization of the previous vowel V.
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Word for "milk" 🥛 in European Languages
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Still blows my mind someone at Google would of came up with the idea of Google Maps / Google Earth Then suggested that they drive down every road on the planet and take pictures of it And then they actually went and did it
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Nick@fin0cchi0Oct 28
In order to properly speak a foreign language you sort of have to do an impression of a native speaker. The reason why most anglos are so bad at languages is because they are too self-conscious to effectively do this
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if you see this you should do it!!! Pronouns : he/him Height : 178 cm (5’10”) Shoe Size : 44/45 Zodiac : leo ♌️ Eye color : brown Smoke : no! Tattoos : no! Piercings : yes (both ears) Fav color : yellow Fav drink : coffee
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@joakial_28 Jun 2025
if you see this you should do it!!! Pronouns : he/him Height : 180 cm Shoe Size : 41 Zodiac : scorpio Smoke : no! Tattoos : no! Piercings : no! Fav color : green Fav drink : tea / coffee / maybe pepsi max
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@grahamscheperOct 28
Ambassador might seem like a Latinate word, but it actually comes from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic, and even then it’s a loan from Proto-Celtic ambaxtos. Old English had a word from this root, ombiht, meaning ‘officer.’ If it had survived, it would be ‘*ambight’ today.
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@EzKordemOct 28
A etymological diagram of the word 'Cow' in the Indo-European language family.
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