Linguistics

There are 17 items in Linguistics:

Altertumswissenschaft

Altertumswissenschaft: German word for the study of ancient culture and society. There is no equivalent in English.There is no real English equivalent for the German word Altertumswissenschaft, which refers to the study of ancient culture and society. It covers both…

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Aramaeans

Aramaeans: name of the Iron Age people living in what is now Syria. Their language, Aramaic, became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East. …

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Aryans

Aryans: name of the ancestors of the Persian elite of the Achaemenid Empire. (Not to be confused with Arians.) The name…

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Avesta

Avesta: the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Iranian religion that was founded by the legendary Bactrian prophet Zarathustra. Faravahar, the visual…

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Dutch Language

Dutch: language from Northwestern Europe, derived from ancient Frankish. Today, it is the main language in the Netherlands and Flanders, but it is also spoken in Surinam and on several Caribean islands. It is closely related to South-African.Origin …

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Etruscans

Etruscans: ancient nation, living in the first millennium BCE in the area between the rivers Tiber and Arno.Origin Lemnos, tombstone of an…

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Hittites

Hittites: ancient nation in Central Anatolia, named after their capital Hattusa, builders of one of the great Bronze Age empires.Origin Kaneš, the…

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Indo-Europeans

Indo-Europeans: general name for the people speaking an Indo-European language. They are (linguistic) descendants of the people of the Yamnaya culture (c.3600-2300 BCE) in Ukraine and southern Russia, and settled in the area from Western Europe to India in various migrations in…

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Luxenberg Thesis

Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which…

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Macedonia (2)

Macedonia: ancient landscape and state, situated in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and northern Greece, best known because its king Alexander the Great (r.336-323) conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated a new period in Greek history.Language At first sight, it…

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