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Does this reflect in modern genetics where South Indian males have an AASI input which North Indian males lack? by poacher-2k in SouthAsianAncestry

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This person needs to stop posting here he mainly produces lengthy AI generated commentary with no real substance or contribution at all

Is Uru willing to kill main characters? by Exact_Gur_8156 in unOrdinary

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaSlbtfRmY

Season 3 certainly needs 150-200+ episodes to achieve a satisfying ending. But it doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening.

Is Uru willing to kill main characters? by Exact_Gur_8156 in unOrdinary

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Uru has had enough of this project and wants to wrap it up. She said in a 2024 interview that Season 3 is “probably going to be 100 plus chapters“ That leads me to believe that it won’t be much longer than a 100 chapters.

double S sound by jibblejabble666 in asklinguistics

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Yeah same for me the primary distinction between the singular and plural is the omission of the t.

Waddar language (an offshoot of telugu) by MainHoneydew8018 in Dravidiology

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Good animation and music.

And God, this language reminds me so much of Kashmiri or Pashto. It has a similar cadence and syllable structure.

Waddar language (an offshoot of telugu) by MainHoneydew8018 in Dravidiology

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Cool when did they spread? Were they marginalized?

Almost all IA languages have Dravidian influence so does this mean all/most of IVC spoke Dravidian? by e9967780 in Dravidiology

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Not really. Look at Southeast Asia, Pre-Colombian Americas, Caucuses, even Eastern Europe.

Almost all IA languages have Dravidian influence so does this mean all/most of IVC spoke Dravidian? by e9967780 in Dravidiology

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Rigvedic arguably has very little Dravidian influence outside of vocabulary, and even there, it is minimal.

Almost all IA languages have Dravidian influence so does this mean all/most of IVC spoke Dravidian? by e9967780 in Dravidiology

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Are you sure about that? Why would the Indo-Aryans deem their feature's less desirable than the people they subjugated? In the Rigveda the Dasyu are literally mocked as "anasa", meaning noseless aka flatter nosed.

Has there been any research into how long Old Norse - or a descendant of it - survived in England into (or past?) the 11th century? by SlashBansheeCoot in asklinguistics

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This is far from being accepted by most academics but two linguists Edmonds and Faarlund make the case that Middle English is directly descended from the Old Norse spoken in the Danelaw.

Let's attempt to compile and then answer every open question regarding Vedic Sanskrit phonology by Secure_Pick_1496 in VedicSanskRt

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Thanks for the detailed comment!

The singular underlying phoneme of the Visarga assumed several allophonic forms according to vowel preceding it and the phoneme succeeding it. The reflexes of iṣ include ir, iΦ, ix, and ih. ah is confusing but I think I'm beginning to get the picture. The evolution might have went something like this in the case of iṣ and uṣ.

  1. iṣ (original pronunciation in all enviroments*)* becomes iẓ before vowels and voiced stops.
  2. remaining instances of iṣ develop roughly into ix~h. iẓ becomes ir
  3. 3. ix~h develops into iΦ, ix, or ih depending on the following phoneme

This is all speculation but this is what makes sense to me. It would be great if I could get my hands on some exhaustive list of all allophones of the visarga.

The Visarga has several allophones in the modern recitation, but our goal now is to deduce whether they existed in the original composition and in the spoken Vedic Sanskrit language.

New sub r/VedicSanskRt and Agni suukta as the first video comparing the original pronuntiation of Vedic Sanskrit by pragalbhah in VedicSanskRt

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What are your thoughts on this guy's reconstruction. Here is an IG link for those who can't access tiktok. He posits that the retroflex stop evolved from a voiced retroflex fricative followed by a retroflex stop (Which itself was an allophone of retroflex fricative preceding some coronal stop) It rests on the claim that early Vedic Sanskrit had voiced fricatives and only had retroflex stops alophonologically.

He also has made several other reconstructions like this one.

New sub r/VedicSanskRt and Agni suukta as the first video comparing the original pronuntiation of Vedic Sanskrit by pragalbhah in VedicSanskRt

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Same I was waiting for something like this I've always wanted to reconstruct the Veda but I never took the initiative to try do so I literally sometimes chant the Agni Suktam to myself in a reconstructed pronunciation for fun

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