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cm0002@suppo.fi to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago

Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire

www.popularmechanics.com

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Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire

www.popularmechanics.com

cm0002@suppo.fi to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago
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Look for it soon on Duolingo.
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  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    experts aren’t sure what the specific idiom says,

    I’ll bet $2 that it’s a poop joke

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    Please don’t read that language out loud…

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      I mean…is the curse really that much worse than what’s going on now? It would certainly be more interesting I think lmao

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        Is there a server in which you don’t have an account?

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          435 of them, based on lemmyverse’s current count of 466 instances

          Actually now that I think about it, I still don’t have a slrpnk account lmao, my trading card deck is incomplete!

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            Well, rock on.

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    It’d be cool if it was related to basque

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      As Drusas said, it’s an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian:

      The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.

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        deleted by creator

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      It isn’t. The article said it’s in the Indo-European family and related to a previously-known language in what is modern-day Turkey.

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      This was exactly my first thought!

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    Is this about copper again?

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      The tablet to Ea-nāṣir, right? That’s from Ur (modern Iraq), and at least a century older, perhaps four.

      (The tablet to Ea-nāṣir was dated from 1750 BCE. I’m not sure on the exact date of the tablet in the OP, but the site ranges from 1200 to 1650 BCE.)

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        It was in fact a joke. I do know they are entirely different and from different regions and cultures. I was just being humorous, which I guess doesn’t go over well on this app.

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          … …then I ruined your joke. Sorry.

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