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Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree

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Post time 30-1-2015 10:49 AM | Show all posts |Read mode





When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian). Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There’s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring. Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram.
Also worth checking out is the page before the tree, where she gives a comparison chart of words in the Nordic languages, and illustrates what an outlier Finnish is with the concept of “meow.”
You can order a poster version here. Read Stand Still. Stay Silent here. Also see Sundberg’s previous work, A Redtail’s Dream, here.

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Post time 30-1-2015 12:04 PM | Show all posts
Wah menarik apa pun asalnya tetap dari Adam dan Hawa.
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Post time 1-2-2015 02:29 AM | Show all posts
bahase melayu ade?
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Post time 1-2-2015 01:33 PM | Show all posts
Chart tu mentioned pasal Nordic Language. Bahasa Melayu part of Austronesian kot...lupa plak..
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Post time 4-2-2015 01:33 PM | Show all posts
menarikkkkkk
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Post time 20-1-2024 02:12 AM | Show all posts
Cool
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