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  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

    Linguistics of course is a passion. I'm pretty much studying Turkic evolution, as languages and as cultures, in Central Asia and Siberia.

    Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:13:31 UTC from web
    1. MetalTao MetalTao

      @hawloween Siberia is a funny place I heard. Is that true? The name doesn't sound very funny.

      Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:14:50 UTC from web
      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

        @potatao Funny as in up-down in weather, sure.

        Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:15:44 UTC from web
        1. MetalTao MetalTao

          @hawloween Oh, so no then?

          Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:16:19 UTC from web
          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

            @potatao Well, climate and geography there is strange. You either have far-stretched temperate grasslands that see very little in rain or snow, , literal deserts close to tropical temperatures, taigas that rarely see a day abouve 15C in the summer, mountains, wetlands, conifer forests. It isn't by far all tundra.

            Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:19:09 UTC from web
            1. MetalTao MetalTao

              @hawloween O_o Geeze, that is a bit weird! I have to thank my CnC for letting me understand some of that. Are there a lot of mountains? Hills? What is the reason for this?

              Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:21:03 UTC from web
            2. MetalTao MetalTao

              @hawloween Or, is it because it is so expansive? Latterally I mean.

              Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:21:17 UTC from web
              1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                @potatao It's expansive and saw a hell of a lot of glacier activity, I mean, we're talking about the largest mass of land in the world if we include all of Eurasia, not just Siberia.

                Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:22:15 UTC from web
                1. MetalTao MetalTao

                  @hawloween Really? I thought Africa was the largest?! Unless Afro-Eurasia is... Did I miss something?

                  Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:23:01 UTC from web
                  1. Matt Matt

                    @potatao Eurasia is definitely WAY larger than Africa.

                    Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:23:35 UTC from web
                    1. MetalTao MetalTao

                      @zeldatra Yeah. I worded that stupidly. Sorry about that. It Definitely is mate, you are right~

                      Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:25:55 UTC from web
                  2. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                    @potatao I meant Europe and Asia, Eurasia, as the super-continent.

                    Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:24:17 UTC from web
                    1. MetalTao MetalTao

                      @hawloween OH! Ok! I thought you were referring to just Siberia.

                      Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:24:52 UTC from web
                      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                        @potatao Initially I was but Siberia, at least in the older world interpretation, took up the larger north eastern quadrant of the super-continent in general, which includes what we know as Central Asia.

                        Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:27:39 UTC from web
                        1. MetalTao MetalTao

                          @hawloween Ok! Thanks for that! Oh by the way, how old is the language that is used in SIberia?

                          Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:30:19 UTC from web
                          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                            @potatao There are dozens of languages spoken by natives of Siberia, not including Russian which is the most widely used. They run the gambit from being Finno-Ugric, or Uralic, to Turkic, to Indo-Aryan, most being Turkic, which no-one knows how old the languages really are. They weren't written for the most part until well into the A.D's.

                            Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:32:06 UTC from web
                            1. MetalTao MetalTao

                              @hawloween My god! Turkic is that old?! Past the AD?! Holy kiwi! I never knew that! Why didn't my teacher tell me that. Oh well. Wha does Finno-Urgic Look like? Sound like?

                              Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:34:02 UTC from web
                              1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                                @potatao Finnish is the largest example, but outside of that I can think of Erzya, Udmurt, some say Chuvash... they're weird to say the least, and if you put them alongside each other you can't really tell they're related. An example, albeit small, or Erzya http://rainbowdash.net/url/796993

                                Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:36:10 UTC from web
                                1. MetalTao MetalTao

                                  @hawloween A lot of it looks Greek. Did the Greeks establish Colonies up inthere? Establish trade routes? Or, is it the other way around?

                                  Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:40:01 UTC from web
                                  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                                    @potatao Russian imperialism and implementation of the Cyrillic alphabet for all languages written in their territories.

                                    Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:40:58 UTC from web
                                    1. MetalTao MetalTao

                                      @hawloween Really?! What is Cyrillic? Also, I hpe I am not boring you with not knowing about this topic.

                                      Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:47:32 UTC from web
                                      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                                        @potatao Not boring me in the least. Cyrillic is the writing systeme used for the Russian language, as well as many other Slavic languages. It was developed based off the Greek systeme as many Slavic tribes were converted to Orthodoxy.

                                        Saturday, 01-Nov-14 02:49:26 UTC from web