Tag: language
The King and the God: Telling tales in Proto-Indo-European
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I’m such a nerd. I’m fascinated with listening to this Proto-Indo-European reconstruction and with reading the accompanying text, figuring out which words are what. The date for this hypothesized language’s spread from the Russian Steppes to Ireland would be about 8,000 to 3,000 years ago. Amazingly, there are some recognizable…
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Navajo Code Talkers: Heroes of World War II
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A truly fascinating story: The Navajo Code Talkers are credited with being vital in the defeat of the Japanese on Iwo Jima and, by extension, their final defeat in World War II. Surmised to be related to various Syno-Tibetan dialects, the Navajo language is extremely interesting, as is the origin…
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