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#Ossetian for the Caucasian #carp is сардзан (Ir. šarzan, Digor. sarʣan) or сазан (Ir. šažan, Digor. sazan), both loaned from Turkic, the latter perhaps via Russian саза́н (sazán).According to Dybo
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Here's something new I learned today!Old Uyghur (not a direct ancestor of modern Uyghur) had a so-called anticipating counting system in which, from Erdal 2004,"First stated is the digit as
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Elamite word of the day!Achæmenid #Elamite 𒁇𒋼𒌨 bar-te-taš ('storage facility for (royal??) commodities') — loan from (late) Old Persian *𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥ē𝘥𝘢 with -š suffixed as is often seen in nominal loans
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This is a good initiative, but it is sort of unreasonable to think that a speaker community necessarily agrees on what to call their language. Case in point, my own
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