Western Nilotic Languages Puns

I only know a few and will like to know how many exactly . I heard from someone like about 78 but idk how precise that is ...

In terms of analytic/synthetic, agglutinative/fusional, how are most Nilotic languages classified? I couldn't find any clear statement in the wikipedia articles of the languages I looked at. Based on the suffixing/prefixing I would say they are not analytic, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to recognize agglutinative vs. fusional

Edit:

actually I had the same problem finding information on Bantu or other west African languages if anybody knows

I was reading African Archaeology by D.W. Phillipson, and in a section on early farming he wrote:

> Study of modern linguistic distributions and loanwords indicates that much of highland southern Kenya and northern Tanzania now settled by Nilotic- and Bantu- speakers was formerly occupied by people who spoke languages that may be classified as Southern Cushitic (Ehret 1974)

After some preliminary googling about this topic, I repeatedly find references citing Ehret's work from the 1970s and 1980s.

Has there been any recent work done on this topic within the last 10-15 years?

I just thought about it, and I think it's because it has two adjectives (?). It feels like an incomplete sentence.

"This object is extremely dangerously".

"Extremely dangerously WHAT?"

It doesn't apply to say, the Western Bulldogs in the AFL, because that name resolves with a noun.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

EDIT: I also appreciate the fact that there's a typo in my title. Muphry's Law in action.

In Latin, Y was never used as a semivowel or glide; i.e. it never came before another vowel, if I’m not mistaken.

Languages like German, French, and Italian use their correspondent translations of either the verb "to be" or "to have" for auxiliary verbs to build their respective Perfect tenses.

In contrast, languages like English and Spanish only ever use the verb "to have" to do the same.

I wonder why that is.

Clearly speculating but considering Wild Guns Reloaded and Ninja Saviors got one it doesn't seem too far off

Hi everyone! I thought these list of English-language resources on pre-Christian Polish beliefs and folklore may be of interest to some of you:

https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/polish-paganism-resources/

The blog is worth well checking out if you're interested in Polish culture in general. Also, apologies if this has been shared before or if I'm posting in the wrong place

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but these videos are overly common on YouTube and popular. No reasonable count can track all the videos with some variation of the video of "Awkward white guy speaks Mandarin/Tagalog/Korean/Arabic/Turkish/Hindi, naïve natives totally impressed."

It comes off to me as complete grandstanding. I've learned to not be impressed because a lot of times, the guys who make these videos can't even speak the language well, at all. What do you think? How would you rate the skills of the people in this video?

I was into conlanging for a while, and I always remember how someone told me that to really be able to conlang, you need to know at least one language that is completely unlike your own. Just so you have that reference, of knowing how things can be done differently.

I'm not really interested in picking specific languages and trying to learn the basics of that. But I would still love to expand my view.

So I was wondering, are there any resources out there that take just a few completely different languages, and compares them in structure and such, rather than word-by-word translation or etymology?

(F14) For context I grew in a fairly rich family so naturally I spent most of my life studying in international schools. Started learning English at 3 years old and got addicted to all things american. I've won multiple gold medals for english literature + debate yet I'm miserably failing Vietnamese class. I struggle with communicating exactly what I'm thinking in Vietnamese yet I do so effortlessly in English. I can NOT stand reading vietnamese books and will only be able to finish english ones. If I don't get my shit together, I could be spitting shakespears level english and still fail school. What should I do?

So I’m currently a PhD student in philosophy in the UK. I specialise in World philosophy and my current project is a comparative project between Western and Buddhist thought.

I’m aim to become an academic in philosophy and to teach it and I’m currently getting very stressed about the importance of knowing languages. Now I already know Spanish, some French and I am learning the Buddhist language Pali, but I keep worrying that I need to know more or I won’t get a job teaching what I want.

A lot of people, including my supervisors and others have told me that it is possible to get a job teaching Non-Western philosophy without being able to read the original texts completely. Obviously, it helps if you can, but that at many universities it isn’t a requirement and that it is more important that you know the ideas and have publications under your belt.

I believe them of course but still I worry. So I’m wondering, is there anyone that teaches Non-Western or Western philosophy out there that can not read the original texts of the tradition as this is really stressing me out.

Thanks so much in advance.

Looking back on my past experiences I realized that Asian language use varied among Western Asians depending on income/net worth

My observations:

Lower income (recent fob and has little /lost everything when emigrating)= High use of native language from where they immigrated from and low to native level of English. Use of former used to connect with culture in foreign land and bond with immigrants from same heritage nation.

Middle class Asians (Suburbia) = At home use / Heritage speaker level of native non-English language. Fluent use of English. Use of former seen as embarrassing.

Upper class Asians (rich FOB / Western raised with elite pedigree) = Fluent use of both English and heritage Asian language, or at the very least conversational in the latter. Both are flexed and are seen as status symbol, with optional 3rd or 4th language proficiency marking elite education / access to wealth and all languages are used to expand networking and/or business opportunities.

Especially as the East grows stronger and the West tries hard to make us forget who we are, to me it has become increasingly important to learn our native language, especially since most of us are from the second group, and have the highest chance of losing our Asianness within our families (other family members have sense of shame /embarrassment and need to assimilate). A lot of us will be or are part of the elite of Western Asians and we can use our multilingual nature for self gain and to benefit our communities. I don’t know if there will be many of the 1st group left since many Asian economies are drastically improving and will lead to less emigration.

Feel free to share your experiences (my observations don’t apply to everyone) and use /knowledge of Asian languages.

I used to be fluent in Tagalog but now am only conversational/ business use level.

Mine is Rabbi Shergill. Recommended songs - Tere Bin and Bulla ki jaana

I'm new to this game and I really have become an addict to it - I love it. The turn-based strategy combined with the base-building is a perfect match for me.

There is one thing though. When it comes to the different nationalities that one can pick for the soldiers, the number of Western countries is much higher than non-Western.

Take Africa, which is only represented by three countries: South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt.

Contrary, if you want your character to be European, you can pick between 13 different countries (without counting Russia). If we count Western nationalities, Australia, Canada and USA are there as well - so 16.

Now, if we look at languages, there are ONLY Western options.

I believe Xcom 2 can do better at being more diverse. A quick analysis would say that Xcom probably include many of the countries with the highest population in the world. But a country like Bangladesh with 164 million people is not represented.

And I don't know if it's just my settings that does this, but when I have to recruit new soldiers, 90 percent of them will be from Western countries. I know that I can just change their nationality and all, but I still find it a bit weird. Often I don't feel like doing much to edit every soldier, so I have ended up with a very Western team.

I hope that Xcom will be inspired by a game like Rocket League, which includes all nations even those not recognized by Western countries such as Palestine, Kurdistan etc. This is after all a game about a resistance movement.

So in English speaking western countries, it can be somewhat common in our culture for people and/or media like films to make little jabs at non-English speakers for having either difficulties or peculiar differences when pronouncing words in English.

e.g. making fun of people's broken English, the difference Mandarin speakers can have in pronouncing their Ls and Rs, non-English people saying words in a sentence in the wrong order, Russians pronouncing "th" as "z" sounds.

I'm curious whether the reverse also happens in non-English speaking countries to English speaking people trying to speak their language (e.g. an English tourist trying to speak Mandarin, French, Portuguese, etc)?

If so what are our common mistakes/differences in trying to speak those languages? What are we mocked for?

Did John just raise a specific kind of people when he brought them back? Seems like likely.

1. "Aryans" invaded & wiped out "Dravidians" in an extremely short time- already disproved via archeology & genetics.

2. Natives of western/northern India before arrival of "Indo-Aryans" spoke neither Dravidian nor Munda languages but completely different language family which is now extinct.

3. "Indo-Aryan" was the native language of western/northern India.

https://a-genetics.blogspot.com/2021/11/west-east-divide-IA.html

Some other related links:

Harappa/"Aryan" Migration debate: Proto-Indo-European was agricultural. But no evidence of agriculture on the steppe; Sintashta or Yamnaya culture were both non-agrarian. Indo-Iranians have PIE agricultural vocabulary often lacking in European IE. How is PIE home in Steppes?

https://np.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/qn4tfa/harappaaryan_migration_debate_protoindoeuropean/

Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology)- Paper criticially breaks apart the models claiming Proto-Indo-European languages split only after invention of wheel or that they even originated in Steppes.

https://np.reddit.com/r/BharatasyaItihaas/comments/qpkfcz/wheels_languages_and_bullshit_or_how_not_to_do/

Well I just made a whole post about this and then like an idiot accidentally clicked a link and lost it. Fuck me. So, here's the short version:

When I first heard VNR I was bummed, missed Dallas's vocals. But I keep listening to it and I've come to realize it's one of their best albums to date. Brian's vocals aren't as brutal, but his delivery is impeccable. Plus, he wrote half of the album. So if Dallas were still in the band, we wouldn't have the masterstroke that is Vile Nilotic Rites. Some of my favorite songs on the album were written by Brian and it really shows how well he meshes with the rest of the band. It's a new chapter for Nile, for sure, but god damn they have it together and I am really looking forward to seeing what else they pull off.

So those are my thoughts. What are yours?

1. "Aryans" invaded & wiped out "Dravidians" in an extremely short time- already disproved via archeology & genetics.

2. Natives of western/northern India before arrival of "Indo-Aryans" spoke neither Dravidian nor Munda languages but completely different language family which is now extinct.

3. "Indo-Aryan" was the native language of western/northern India.

https://a-genetics.blogspot.com/2021/11/west-east-divide-IA.html

Some other related links:

Harappa/"Aryan" Migration debate: Proto-Indo-European was agricultural. But no evidence of agriculture on the steppe; Sintashta or Yamnaya culture were both non-agrarian. Indo-Iranians have PIE agricultural vocabulary often lacking in European IE. How is PIE home in Steppes?

https://np.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/qn4tfa/harappaaryan_migration_debate_protoindoeuropean/

Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology)- Paper criticially breaks apart the models claiming Proto-Indo-European languages split only after invention of wheel or that they even originated in Steppes.

https://np.reddit.com/r/BharatasyaItihaas/comments/qpkfcz/wheels_languages_and_bullshit_or_how_not_to_do/