Yup, we call it riyals, or some people romanize it as rijals. I didn’t know it stems from portugal/spain, must have been related to al-andalus.

Between old french and english, middle english; the word /reuler/ split, and became two words: ruler 🫅, and ruler 📏. Same word, same origin, different meaning.

Great tip, thank you! I’ll keep it in mind.

Interesting paper, thanks for sharing

Are you color blind? If so I’ll try to edit them, then upload a separate version that’s easier to read.

Saudi Arabia #120, 4.88 inches

Bro don’t out us like that, i’m trying my best 😭

We don’t have Latin education here. i’m purely a hobbyist at linguistics and language learning, so I’m still a little dull at it.

I started the Latin comm since the .world one is dead, and after only a day it managed to get almost 70 subscribers (the first 5 minutes I created it, there were 35 subscribers immediately O_O), but I’m mainly the active one there. In a few days hopefully some of the lurkers will post, too.

I didn’t notice you moderate linguistics by the way, I’ll be sure to drop some posts about Semitic languages and such later on :)

Welcome! I didn’t realize there were this many Latin hobbyists on Lemmy, either :)

I’ll check out !linguistics@mander.xyz too, thanks!

PIE might not actually even exist, there is no proof of it. The hypothesis is that there used to be only one language in the Indo-Europes 4500-2500 BCE, And and as speakers were mose isolated, regional dialects began to form, and thousands of years later they became distinct languages. But we don’t know anything about PIE itself. It’s a mess.

Anyways, as for your question: they noticed things off about some words, and it was theorized that there were other letters. These are the Laryngeals.

Those aren’t H’s, they’re Laryngeals (They use the same letter, but there is a small number next to it; that makes it a different consonant). As for why they were dropped or how they sound, nobody knows.

There is a Wikipedia page on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngeal_theory?wprov=sfla1

They’re called Laryngeals, and no one really knows how to pronounce them, from what I can tell.

Edit, there are two theories on how to pronounce them:

Rasmussen chose a consonantal realization for *h₃ as a voiced labialized velar fricative [ɣʷ], with a syllabic allophone [ɵ], i.e. a close-mid central rounded vowel. Kümmel instead suggests [ʁ].

I haven’t heard of people screaming about pies in someone’s face, so I think it’s safe to assume PIE means proto-indo-european :)

Oh wait, I misunderstood your last question, sorry. I thought you were asking if it meant rulers as in measuring device.

No, rulers diverged in Middle English, from ruelers. Apologies for the misunderstanding

What’s the original word you asked about? I can’t find it. But yes, ruler as in leader or king

Same,I love these types of statistics and trees :^)

I’ll try to upload more linguistics based content on Lemmy, including stuff like this.