by Zabaan | Jun 9, 2015 | Case Systems, Classical languages, Linguistics, Old English, Old Norse
Ink, as a tool for writing, has had a profound and ever deepening influence on our perception of the nature of language. It has enabled us to make stills of fractional moments in its evolution and given an artificial solidity to something that has only a very...
by Zabaan | Jun 1, 2015 | Hindi, Linguistics, Sanskrit
The vowels ए (ē) and ओ (ō) of Sanskrit, and therefore also of Hindi and other North Indian languages that have sprung from Sanskrit, are always long. They do not have corresponding short forms, such as इ (i) and उ (u) have the corresponding forms ई (ī) and ऊ (ū). This...
