#Altaic hashtag - Bluesky

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

6 months ago

#Uralic (#Mansi: #хул) and #Altaic (#Tungusic: #kul, salmon; #KhalkaMongolian: #xalim, whale, presumably of the biblical prophet-swallowing variety, hard to imagine them having a word for it otherwise). Clearly a very old word, although not corroborated by the last example: Christianity was
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C. Buck (supposed to be writing)

@tlacamazatl.bsky.social

7 months ago

I laughed. Found this at a "rare used books" store in Boston. #langsky #language #linguistics #altaic #Japanese

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Bacon Based Lifeform

@soundmirrors.bsky.social

2 years ago

Altaic: Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis Languages throughout Asia are startlingly similar, but are they all part of one huge family? Thus began the biggest fight in the history of historical lingui...

#Altaic: The Rise and Fall of a Linguistic Hypothesis
youtu.be/z0zkHH6ZOEk

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