Russian and Portuguese sound the same because they’re both next to Galicia

I also just like the idea of writing Greek with Cyrillic. Feel like that would work well for Tsakonian too.

Mariupol Greek is easily my favorite modern dialect

someday i’m gonna have to get into the yiddish vowel system

Quechua q'aytu ‘thread, string, cord’ : Arabic ḫayṭu ‘id.’

Stay woke.

One thing about Elamite is they write /ni/ with the 𒉡 nu sign. Not sure what that’s about.

It’s true that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Yves Saint Laurent are some of the coolest names ever. But people are forgetting about Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

Sevastopol sounds like the name of a Hellenistic city but apparently it was founded in 1783.

I say /ˈæntifə/ lol

reminder to myself to read this

i know mexican and chinese guys who both look exactly like this

olmecs were so chinese coded

when are we getting the helicopter and spaceship hieroglyphs in unicode

ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲧⲱⲛϥ!

ngl I don’t like how wiktionary puts breves on α/ι/υ in the headword. If it doesn’t have a macron we know it’s short!

Akkadians be like “south”

reconstructions are all well and good, i’m just pointing out that there is a correct Graeco-Latin form of this word inherited from antiquity and ready-made to be used in English or any other European language

If people want to call Egypt by its native name I wish they would use the proper received form Chemia (Χημία) rather than the Egyptological “Kemet”

ⲡⲓⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲧⲱⲛϥ!

directly attested in αλσουναλφ ‘oxtongue’ too!

Is it just me or does the Graeco-Babyloniaca look extremely Palmyrene

Wonder if there’s a connection between Old Persian Pirāva ‘Nile’ and Mandaic Piriawis, name of the "great river" (yardna rba) of heaven.

The name is definitely qrtḥdšt and not krkḥdš tho right?

Quoc ngu completed the Latin alphabet by adding ư and ơ.

Middle English were getting kinda Egyptian with it

It’s basically a universal law that things from Iberia end up in Ireland and things from France end up in Britain, hence I choose to believe Goidelic shares a branch with Celtiberian and Brittonic with Gaulish

how it feels to read demotic

ċ and ġ are maltese letters, not englisc!

and sorry but germanic languages should not be using macrons for vowel length. acutes pls