How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgoBRbfkUA
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#ycombinator #historical_linguistics #proto_indo_european #proto_germanic #proto_languages #sanskrit #hittite #gothic #old_english #latin #ancient_greek #albanian
Fun fact: Arabic قلم “pen” is a loan from Greek κάλαμος, which originally meant “reed”, and was semantically extended to anything made of reed, like a rod, flute, or pen. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/κάλαμος#Ancient_Greek
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#Arabic qalam قَلَم ‘pen, pencil, reed pen (traditionally), calligraphic style’
#Haida ḵʼáalaangw ‘pen, pencil, paintbrush made from porcupine quills (traditionally)’
https://youtu.be/4DKH-12iFoA?t=3
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