Is there any difference between the “loanwords” and the “borrowed words”?
Is there any difference between the “loanwords” and the “borrowed words”?
Is it possible to have similar sounds and be understandable in most human languages?
Is it possible to have similar sounds and be understandable in most human languages? For example Names of cities, rivers, mountains, special scientific terms, and particular animals “Koala”, etc.
Why are there more new words and new symbols that have emerged, adapted, used, and are intelligible by people with different native languages all over the world?
Why are there more new words and new symbols that have emerged, adapted, used, and are intelligible by people with different native languages all over the world? For example, the…
Why are there more vowels in the original Oceania languages, especially at the end of the word?
Why are there more vowels in the original Oceania languages, especially at the end of the word? For example; bat 🦇 Hawaiian: ʻōpeʻapeʻa Maori: pekapeka Samoan: pe'a
Why is the letter “j” pronounced as /h/ in Spanish?
Why is the letter "j" pronounced as /h/ in Spanish? as in the word, sheep: oveja = oveha.
Why is the letter “g” pronounced as /h/ in Dutch?
Why is the letter “g” pronounced as /h/ in Dutch? as in the word, shrimp: garnaal = harnaal.
How many ideographic languages are there around the world?
How many ideographic languages are there around the world?
How many phonographic languages are there around the world?
How many phonographic languages are there around the world?
What is the difference between language and dialect?
What is the difference between language and dialect?
How many human languages are there around the world?
How many human languages are there around the world?
Phonogramology (continued 4)
Phonogramology (continued 4) According to the traditional classification of languages into analytic and synthetic types, Chinese is always cited as an extremely analytic language. The language has no inflection. There…
Phonogramology (continued 3)
Phonogramology (continued 3): There are different points of view on phonograms (phonetic characters) that need to be verified in linguistic research. We present some of the common beliefs as…
Phonogramology (continued 2)
Phonogramology (continued 2): One branch of the phonographic (alphabetic) languages is called “Abujidas”, also known as syllabic alphabets, and alpha-syllables. Abujidas is a type of phonetic writing with consonants as…
Phonogramology (continued 1)
Phonogramology (continued 1): First, let's talk about alphabetic orthographies. There are several different alphabets used to create written language. For example, English uses the Latin alphabet and 26 symbols…
Phonogramology
Phonogramology: As we know that human writing started with four stages: 1. proto-writing; tallies, knit-tight (Inca-Quipu). 2. Early writing; clay tablets, (Sumerian clay tokens and Cuneiform). 3. Ancient writing;…
Orthography (continued 1)
Orthography (continued 1) From the perspective of the polygenesis theory, most scholars recognize that writing systems (orthography) may have independently originated and developed in at least four ancient civilizations…
Ideogramology (continued 5)
Ideogramology (continued 5)： Philology (English: Analysis of Characters), is a subject of linguistics and Chinese Literature in China. The purpose of philology is to study Chinese ideographic character and its…
Ideogramology (continued 4)
Ideogramology (continued 4): Chinese is one of the oldest languages in the world. Ancient Chinese characters, ancient Egyptian characters, ancient Sumerian characters, Mayan scripts, and ancient Babylonian characters are all…
Ideogramology (continued 3)
Ideogramology (continued 3): According to the standard rules of written language, Chinese characters are generally recorded as monosyllabic morphemes, so modern Chinese characters can be called morpheme characters. Chinese…
Ideogramology (continued 2)
Ideogramology表意文字学 (continued 2): The ideographic text is different from the letters of the alphabetical phonetic text which has a single letter used to represent the phonetic. It does not express…