Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Essay on the language of Gutians

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The R1b from Bakr Awa (Mesopotamia) is now published in FTDNA. Its confirmed as Z2106 and is positive to Y100087 snp. This branch has strong...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Linguistic is a mature science and we should not expect any groundbreaking findings from a new paper.

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Linguistic is a mature science and we should not expect any groundbreaking findings from a new paper. What can do a modern linguist is to ha...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

The word for horse in Hurrian

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  The word for horse in Hurrian ešši / iššiya is strikingly close to Armenian word eš (genitive išoy ) meaning donkey. This resemblance beco...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

One possible way to know the language(s) spoken in Kur-Araxian culture is to examine the onomastics in those places where there was continuity

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One such place is the Malatya-Elazig (Kharberd/Harpoot) region that I marked with green circle. In this region the KA settlements evolved in...
Friday, February 10, 2023

The origin of Thracians is interesting from Armenian perspective for two reasons.

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The origin of Thracians is interesting from Armenian perspective for two reasons. First to check the Kortland's proposal about close rel...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Armenian word giwl / gel (գիւղ) meaning village has different proposed etymologies.

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  The Armenian word giwl / gel (գիւղ) meaning village has different proposed etymologies. Jahukyan compare it with Latin villa, Acharyan con...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Interesting lexical parallels between Armenian and Uralic languages from Jahukyan's book.

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  Interesting lexical parallels between Armenian and Uralic languages from Jahukyan's book. Those words are not explained via Iranian or...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Many religious terms in Armenian language are loanwords from Christian and Iranian periods. This means that the native or the older vocabulary is lost.

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  Many religious terms in Armenian language are loanwords from Christian and Iranian periods. This means that the native or the older vocabu...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The possible homeland of Kartvelian languages.

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The excerpts are from Klimov's Etymological dictionary of Kartvelian languages. The proposed age of Proto-Kartvelian divergence is 4200 ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Alexei Kassian discuss the possible connection between Sumerian and Hurrian languages.

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Alexei Kassian discuss the possible connection between Sumerian and Hurrian languages . He compares the list of basic vocabulary and finds s...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

The etymology of the term Getaru by Hrach Martirosyan.

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The etymology of the term Getaru by Hrach Martirosyan. The term Getar(u) appears in various places including the Caucasian Albania. This la...
Friday, October 1, 2021

Alexei Kassian made a Swadesh list of Hurrian language and compared it to reconstructed proto NEC language and it turns out that there is not much good cognates between this two languages

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 Alexei Kassian made a Swadesh list of Hurrian language and compared it to reconstructed proto NEC language and it turns out that there is n...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

The number of inherited Indo European words in Armenia was discussed in this group

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 The number of inherited Indo European words in Armenia was discussed in this group. According Acharyan 713 roots plus 196 derived words fro...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Armen Petrosyan has more Armenian etymologies from Etiuni onomastics

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 Armen Petrosyan has more Armenian etymologies from Etiuni onomastics. Notice Urartians were in most likelihood omitting the laryngeal [h]...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Northeast Caucasian (Nakh- Daghestani) people origin and dispersal.

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If we exclude that young cluster of J2 among Nakh people, the common denominator of all NEC people is the J1-Z1842 branch. More specifically...