tonogenesis
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@hhpapazian @tonogenesis If Armenian were the international script, they could've used Ճ - that'd show it's an abbreviation of a country that starts with the sound ch, not an unclear sound spelled with the ambiguous letter C
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@hhpapazian Sorry that was trolling. Is there some other model for the development of the alphabet I’m unaware of? I have my own points of contention with the standard model, so I’d love to read about any other.
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@hhpapazian It’s all the same Sinaitic turquoise miner alphabet anyways
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@hhpapazian Some of the best orthographies in the world are Latin. German, Vietnamese. English is basically perfect, Chomsky was right about that.
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@cobbaltt Lost before s when unstressed I guess. Similar thing happened to n.j-sw which was pronounced εσ- or σ- in Demotic. The n in nsw is preserved in a few other words like ϣⲛⲥ though.
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Interesting post on Egyptian-Greek language contact.
Note how «ỉmn-rꜥ nswt nṯr.w» is borrowed as «Ἀμονρασονθήρ» ‹Ámonrasontʰḗr›.
«ỉmn-rꜥ» ‘Amun-Re’ = «Ἀμονρα-» ‹Ámonra-›
«nṯr.w» ‘gods’ = «-νθήρ» ‹-ntʰḗr›
So, «nswt» = «-σο-» ‹-so-›?
I can never figure out exactly who/where the Babylonians and Assyrians are talking about when they say Bīt Yakin. Like Jachin from the Bible?
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@fakenewsduck that’s the quipu, but they do call the strings q'aytu
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@tonogenesis Isn't that the thing the Quechua used to tie into to knows to communicate?
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Quechua q'aytu ‘thread, string, cord’ : Arabic ḫayṭu ‘id.’
Stay woke.
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I have re-evaluated my claim during my stay in Turkey: it seems the likeliest the claim is true about "burek" (that is, as it's made in the Balkans) but not "börek" which was legitimately brought by Turks from C Asia & there was an onomastic confusion later on
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I believe that lasagna & burek must have evolved from the same common ancestor, diverging after the fall of the Roman Empire
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@avzaagzonunaada I set some time aside next week to study it a bit so I’ll see if I can find out what the deal is
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@tonogenesis It’s been a while since I studied any Elamite, but I seem to recall a lot of orthographic vacillation in the late stage(s) between i & u.
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One thing about Elamite is they write /ni/ with the 𒉡 nu sign. Not sure what that’s about.
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@avzaagzonunaada Not sure, do they? This is just something I noticed looking at a bunch of Elamite texts.
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