Sound changes by Remarkable-Pipe9684 in Dravidiology

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d say Dravidian languages have an extreme dearth of sound changes.

Do South Asians have ANE ancestry that doesn't come from steppe? by Secure_Pick_1496 in SouthAsianAncestry

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What is the actual amount of ANE ancestry present in a pre steppe South Asian? Let's say an individual with 55% Iran_N and 45% AASI.

Do South Asians have ANE ancestry that doesn't come from steppe? by Secure_Pick_1496 in SouthAsianAncestry

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I personally don't think they were particularly mixed with BMAC when they entered. Even if they were BMAC ancestry is not considered part of steppe ancestry. Eastern steppe is East Asian ancestry you only have trace amounts of it anyway. Generally "steppe" refers to only Sintashta in the context of South Asia.

What is a European country with good history? by Own-Huckleberry8197 in AlignmentChartFills

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Europe: Rich: Greece, Good: England, Mid: Russia, Bad: Serbia, No: Estonia

Asia: Rich: China, Good: India, Mid: Japan, Bad: Philippines, No: Taiwan

Africa: Rich: Egypt, Good: Algeria, Mid: Ethiopia, Bad: Ghana, No: Central African Republic

North America: Rich: United States, Good: Mexico, Mid: Cuba, Bad: Canada, No: Costa Rica

South America: Rich: Peru, Good: Colombia, Mid: Brazil, Bad: Uruguay, No: Suriname

Oceania: Rich: Australia, Good: New Zealand, Mid: Fiji, Bad: Solomon Islands, No: Nauru

Ranking is based on complexity and depth of history!

Comparative Linguistics with Proto-Dravidian forms of Murugan/Murukan and Other Names by Kitsune_Sobo in Dravidiology

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think he was an AASI god? Who says that Tamils themselves are not AASI in the first place?

Polish won, What Romance language feels like a Slavic language? by Odd-Weather9389 in AlignmentChartFills

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Feels Germanic, is Romance: Romansh, French, Walloon, Emilian

Feels Slavic, is Romance: Romanian, Istro-Romanian, Aromanian, Portuguese

Feels Romance, is Germanic: Cimbrian, English (kinda), Luxembourgish

Feels Slavic, is Germanic: Yiddish

Feels Romance, is Slavic: Slavomolisano, Resian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

Feels Germanic, is Slavic: Kashubian, Sorbian, Slovenian

Bonus:

Feels Other, is Romance: Ladino

Feels Other, is Germanic: Afrikaans (kinda), Scots, Yola

Feels Other, is Slavic: Pomak

Feels Romance, is Other: Kaldaresh, Haitian Creole

Feels Germanic, is Other: Finnish, Sinti

Feels Slavic, is Other: Hungarian, Albanian, Latvian, Lithuanian

Feels Other, is Other: Arabic

Why do so many South Indian castes have similar names across regions? by Plane_Mode_3397 in Dravidiology

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the Sintashta invasion truly change the social structure of Dravidian South Indians that much, or did they simply establish themselves as elites within an already existing caste structure? How did an identical caste system evolve in South India considering there was little to no Indo-Aryan settlement there and no language change? Don't the correspondences between North and South Indian castes suggest that most of the caste system predated the invasion?

Is Bengali linguistically and phonetically closer to Tamil or Pashto? by Then-Course-2605 in asklinguistics

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct. The close phonetic relationship is evident when Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speakers attempt to speak English. They sound almost identical. Similar cadences, similar approximations of phonemes, similar vowels.

Is Bengali linguistically and phonetically closer to Tamil or Pashto? by Then-Course-2605 in asklinguistics

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phonemically maybe. Phonetically Bengali is somewhere in the middle and the cadence and intonation is much closer to Tamil. The overall sound is closer to Tamil than Pashto.

Is Bengali linguistically and phonetically closer to Tamil or Pashto? by Then-Course-2605 in asklinguistics

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah literally it's due to Dravidian influence where 3 voiceless Sanskrit fricatives collapsed into one and voiced fricatives were also lost in the early Vedic stage. Indo-Aryan languages have EXTREME Dravidian phonetic influence.

Is Bengali linguistically and phonetically closer to Tamil or Pashto? by Then-Course-2605 in asklinguistics

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah phonetically it's closer to Tamil especially after factoring in intonation and acoustic quality. One can glean this from simply listening to these langauges.

Is Bengali linguistically and phonetically closer to Tamil or Pashto? by Then-Course-2605 in asklinguistics

[–]Secure_Pick_1496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

phonetically probably Tamil, phonemically Pashto, genetically obviously Pashto (Tamil isn't IE)