Sunday, 13 July 2008

Learning Bibilical Hebrew

A website classicalhebrew.com claims to be able to help you to learn biblical hebrew.

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Journal of Indo-European Studies(JIES)

This journal has articles on Indo-European phonology,grammar ,words. various cultures possibly connected with Indo-european languages like the Kurgan Culture and linguistic features etc etc

Sunday, 6 July 2008

Rosetta Stone software

This software,it is claimed can made you think and speak like a native speaker.

I believe languages like French and Spanish are avaible.

Learning Chinese

I understand that there is a website Chinesevoice.com which may help you to learn chinese if you want.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Insula

The latin word insula is related to

Gaelic/Irish;ennis/innis,sometimes angalised to Inch eg Enniskillin
Greek;nesi,nesos, believed to be pre-greek
Welsh;ynys

There is a village called Insula in the Ahr valley, rhineland

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Ablative/Ablaut grammer in Indo-european languages

Examples are

sang
sing
song
sung

The vowel varies according to meaning.

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Pre-greek placenames and words in greek

the following placenames are supposed to be pre-greek.
Achelos/Akheloos;related to thracian achel`water'
Ardettos
Athenai
Corinthos;possibly related to indo-european *ghor;horde
Ephesos;possibly related to an Indo-european word meaning bee cf. Apis
Hymettos
Ilissos;might be related to ilium;old name for Troy
Kifissos;possibly related to the word meaning head
Labraunda; related to labyrinth
Larissa;means citadel
Lekabettos;leks might mean light/white
Mycenae
Parnissos/parnon;may be related to Hittite word meaning house
Tiryns;could it be related to Indo-european *dhgerem `earth'



The following words are pre-greek
Labyrinth;believed to be related to luwian labrys`double headed axe from *dabyrinth