Tweeting 'laws' of linguistic change of the Indo-European languages and other factoids about historical linguistics. Sporadically maintained by @mattitiahu. idk a kurgan or somethingJoined June 2015
In case you want to follow my "recitation" 😊
Is acher in gaíth innocht,
fu·fúasna fairggae findḟolt:
ni·ágor réimm mora minn
dond láechraid lainn úa Lothlind.
In case you want to follow my "recitation" 😊
Is acher in gaíth innocht,
fu·fúasna fairggae findḟolt:
ni·ágor réimm mora minn
dond láechraid lainn úa Lothlind.
Thanks to @likethemagician there is now a Wikipedia stub for Johanna Narten. When I'm back home in two weeks and have access to the preface of her Festschrift as a source, I intend to expand it and also write up a German version. Feel free to help for now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_N…
Incidentally, I noticed that Jos Schaeken has his and Henrik Birnbaum's Altkirchenslavische Studien I & II are available to read on his website: schaeken.nl/lu/research/on…
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