What is the origin of the word Slav? The Slavs or Slavic people are obviously most of the people of Eastern Europe, the Poles, Czechs, Slovakians, Ukrainians, Russians, and Serbians etc. Their languages and cultures are very similar.
The word ‘Slav’ or ‘Slowianin’ comes from the Slavic term for word; ‘Slowo’. ‘Slowo’ means ‘word’ (słowo in Polish letters but pronounced [...]
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There are 6,912 living languages according to the Ethnologue. Of these there are 516 nearly extinct languages. Once language death occurs it’s very hard to resurrect a language because you need real live native speakers. Hebrew and perhaps Cornish are two successful examples of languages resurected. A language is considered living if there are native [...]
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The Kurgan people are considered the Proto-Indo-European speaking people who lived in Southern Russian beginning in the 5th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC The Indo-European languages began to diverge and form precursors to Proto-Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, etc.
Other theories put the origins of a unified linguistic Indo European culture about the 9th millennium BC but [...]
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Are the Slavic and Baltic language groups related because of geographic proximity or did they share a common origin or root. This debate cannot concretely be solved by linguistic analysis because the Slavs and Baltic people live too close. Therefore, no matter which way you analysis from a language stand point, you will see words [...]
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Koko the gorilla
Koko learned to sign about 1000 words and understand about 2,000 words. If Koko can, so can you. You do not have to be a genuis to learn a language, however, learning on will improve your intellect.
Koko used signs to convey thoughts. Although some ‘experts’ refute the level of understanding she had with [...]
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Connection between Native Americans and Old Norse
600-year-old American Indian historical account has Old Norse words by Larry Stroud from Guard-Two experts on ancient America may have solved not only the mysterious disappearance of Norse from the Western Settlement of Greenland in the 1300s, but also are deciphering Delaware (Lenape) Indian history, which they’re finding is [...]
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