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https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2011/06/praisos-2.html Paleoglot: Praisos #2 I was reading the latest post from Minoan Language Blog entitled Place-names on Cretan sealstones - A key to the decipherment of Minoan hie... https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html Paleoglot: July 2010 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations july https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/08/pyrgi-tablets-and-burial-of-sun.html Paleoglot: Pyrgi Tablets and the burial of the sun One day, I was scouring the internet, assimilating new perspectives into my personal data collective as usual when I came across a comment b... and the pyrgi tablets burial sun https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/01/holy-goddess-of-sewers.html Paleoglot: The holy goddess of sewers It started with looking up North African terms for 'rainbow' in Berber and Arabic. I confirmed that one Arabic expression is similar to the... holy goddess sewers https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/01/four-stone-hearth-volume-33.html Paleoglot: Four Stone Hearth - Volume 33 "The usual rule with blog carnivals is 'one post per blog.' This rule is ignored because in several instances, a post was self-submitted (wh... four stone hearth volume https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2011/08/great-economic-cycle.html Paleoglot: The great economic cycle It's come to my attention that there are whispers of stock market collapse as the US finally admits to its troubling economics that some mi... the great economic cycle https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/04/ Paleoglot: April 2007 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations april https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/09/blogger-cant-seem-to-handle-long.html Paleoglot: Blogger can't seem to handle long comments Before some readers think it's my fault, I just need to make yet another Google-hates-us-all post concerning the bloated bureaucracy's inab... blogger seem handle long comments https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/08/list-of-possible-proto-semitic-loanword.html Paleoglot: A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE I decided to get organized and produce a pdf that I plan on updating as new information comes forth concerning Proto-Semitic (PSem) loanword... a list possible proto semitic loanwords https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009/ Paleoglot: 2009 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/08/problems-with-etruscan-inscription-tle.html Paleoglot: Problems with Etruscan inscription TLE 890 (or with Etruscologists) Just so we're on the same page, I thought it would be kind to display a photo of TLE 890 since it seems that most Etruscologists like to hid... problems with etruscan inscription tle https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/12/zavaroni-his-comparative-method-and-tle.html Paleoglot: Zavaroni, his 'comparative method' and TLE 193 I came across a pdf recently by Adolfo Zavaroni entitled Le parole etrusche ame, amce e la revisione di IE. *yem- 'Paaren' , translated in E... comparative method tle https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/03/pre-ie-syncope-has-easter-egg-surprise.html Paleoglot: Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you In Proto-Indo-European (PIE), it's easy to show that in some stage of Pre-IE, there was once a heavy stress accent ( as in English or Italia... easter egg pre ie syncope https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html Paleoglot: March 2009 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations march https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/01/ Paleoglot: January 2010 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations january https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2011/02/outdated-goals-for-outdated-people.html Paleoglot: Outdated goals for outdated people Insecure people online or off will sometimes try to intimidate me with comments to the effect that I'd be more 'believable', 'likeable', 're... outdated goals people https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/04/origin-of-indo-european-ego.html Paleoglot: The origin of Indo-European ego (The following uses a special font to render linguistic symbols. Please download and install the Code2000 font [zip] if you're having diffi... the origin indo european ego https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/04/celestial-bodies-etruscan-style.html Paleoglot: The celestial bodies Etruscan-style I'm not updating my blog as frequently as I'd like to. As I said, crazy stuff is happening in my offline life and, well, let's just say that... celestial bodies etruscan style https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-tripped-over-pre-ie-other-day.html Paleoglot: I tripped over Pre-IE the other day I tripped over this link as I was surfing the net lately and I was floored by the eery similarity with my own independent contemplations. It... the other tripped pre ie day https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2001/ Paleoglot: 2001 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogger-quickly-getting-on-my-nerves.html Paleoglot: Blogger quickly getting on my nerves I suspect other people are having the same trouble with Blogger. I've been noticing an aggravating bug that's just appeared on all Blogger c... getting on blogger quickly nerves https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/11/ Paleoglot: November 2007 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations november https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/01/markedness-and-uvular-proposal-in-pie.html Paleoglot: Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE And now I will confess some important technical issues concerning the aforementioned uvular proposal for Proto-Indo-European (PIE). I still ... and the proposal pie https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html Paleoglot: January 2008 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations january https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/index.html Paleoglot Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/03/suspicious-ie-roots-possibly-deserving.html Paleoglot: Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not After exploring some alternative etymologies, some disoriented commenters have tried to warp my intent at open brainstorming into some agend... or maybe suspicious ie roots possibly https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009/10/searching-for-etymology-for-germanic.html Paleoglot: Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz 'hand' First, let's get nonsense out of the way by letting a published author state the obvious about origins of the Proto-Germanic etymon *handuz ... searching for etymology germanic hand https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-not-to-reconstruct-protolanguage.html Paleoglot: How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage I wrote an article last month, The Tower of Babel , which was an unexhaustive critical assessment of the late Sergei Starostin's grandiose o... how not to reconstruct https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2011/11/changes-in-pre-egyptian-vocalism.html Paleoglot: Changes in Pre-Egyptian vocalism Lately I've been reflecting on what Loprieno says about the early Egyptian vowel system on page 55 of Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic introd... changes pre egyptian https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/11/ Paleoglot: November 2010 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations november https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/09/ejective-or-pharnygealized-stops-in.html Paleoglot: Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic? An interesting side-effect of obsessing over these correspondances between Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and Proto-Semitic (PSem) is that I've b... stops proto semitic https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/07/kook-alert-rhaetic-is-now-semitic.html Paleoglot: Kook alert: Rhaetic is now a Semitic language? Here's something to add to the "crazy folder". The 2007 article in this pdf that I came across yesterday is entitled Rhaetic: An extinct Sem... is now kook alert semitic language https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/11/ramble-about-nostratic-pronominal.html Paleoglot: A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system I'm sure I must have hinted before that I hate when some treat long-range theories (like Nostratic, North Caucasian, Dene-Caucasian, or what... about the ramble nostratic system https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/07/ Paleoglot: July 2008 Ancient languages, cultures and civilizations july https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-long-was-contact-between-pre-ie-and.html Paleoglot: How long was the contact between Pre-IE and Proto-Semitic? It's cloudy and rainy today in Winnipeg. So since I can't suntan, it's a perfect day for more rants about Pre-IE! Hooray! In a previous post... how long the contact https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/08/etruscan-esi-what-is-it.html Paleoglot: Etruscan "esi"... What is it? I'm still going through my own personal linguistic database, updating things and refining translations. I now have 790 words with references... what is etruscan esi https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/03/nostratic-and-curse-of-online-forum.html Paleoglot: Nostratic and the curse of the online forum It's a strange fact that comparative linguists get a nasty rash when talking about reconstructing languages older than 6000 years. Why 6000?... and the nostratic curse online forum https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2007/12/perhaps-we-need-etruscan-anti.html Paleoglot: Perhaps we need an Etruscan "anti-dictionary" "What's an 'anti-dictionary'?", you ask? It was a term I just devised today meaning "a dictionary not filled with real words of a language... perhaps need etruscan anti dictionary https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2009/12/myth-of-secular.html Paleoglot: The myth of the secular "The context and state of the archaeological record have relegated peak sanctuaries to marginal areas in the study of Minoan society. This s... the myth secular https://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2008/05/bonfantes-and-dative-of-agent.html Paleoglot: Bonfantes and the 'dative of agent' distraction The treatment of the Etruscan dative case, ending in -si or in -le depending on the gender of the noun, is a perfect example of why I'm pe... and the dative agent distraction