Recent content by Rabenfeld

@intipablo: You are welcome, good luck with your research and your novel! Usually the apostrophe represents something called a "glottal stop", which is a sound used in many languages including most Semitic languages like Arabic or Hebrew. Now, this might sound surprising at first, but it...

The Scythian language most likely belongs to the Indo-Iranian (and therefore to the larger Indo-European) family. I say "most likely" because there seem to be only very few sources, just some hieroglyphic inscriptions containing mostly personal names and place names. Most of what is known about...

Hi everyone, as you can probably see on the left, I'm new to this fine forum and just browsed through some of the threads. Having no own questions at the moment (though they sure are about to come), I asked myself what I could possibly contribute in terms of advice. Well, I am what you may...