1741 linguistic map of Europe, Asia, and Africa by Jakub Marian Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist. His book Synopsis Universae Philologiae, published in 1741, was an early work on comparative linguistics, which strove to present all the world’s languages known at the time together with their writing systems. The...
Evolution of the pronoun “I” in Indo-European languages by Jakub Marian Most European languages developed from a single language called Proto-Indo-European, spoken approximately between 4500 BC and 2500 BC somewhere in the Ukrainian and Russian steppe, according to the most widely accepted hypothesis. The basic words in most modern European...
Ancient Kurdish Clan (Tribe) Mamykan / Mamikonean Latif Mammad Armenian sources (Favstos Buzand. IV - 27,31,36,39; “The History of Armenia” by M. Khorensky; N. Adonts [1]) report on the princely clan Mamikoneans, whose ancestral area was considered Tayk. Sources emphasize that the Mamikonean's principalities along with the...
Indo-European homeland and migrations: half a century of studies and discussions Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze & Vyacheslav V. Ivanov The problem of the initial place from which the original Indo- European dialects spread over Eurasia has been studied by several generations of scholars. Few alternative points of view...
Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman investigate Nevalı Çori Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman investigate Nevalı Çori that was built around 8400 BC and was contemporary with the later phases of Göbekli Tepe. The site was excavated between 1983-1991 when the area was to be flooded by...
Toros Ahpar, Armenia Travel Guide. Travel essays by Archimandrite Garegin Srvandztyants. Annex to the 1st issue of Volume IX of the News of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Tiflis, 1887 At the end of May 1879: Harput Valley is divided into two parts: ...
CULTURAL ASPECT OF ARMENIAN-KURDISH RELATIONS: PLAGIARISM – AT THE LEVEL OF STATE POLICY OF ARMENIA Appeal to the Armenian people LATIF MAMMAD & ANKOSI ISHKHAN ASLANOVICH Modern Armenian-Kurdish relations are still largely under the shadow of the past … In recent years, especially from the Armenians, a special interest has...
Ancient Mythology and Kurds. Ararat Or Judy? Latif Mammad The Kurds, as the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia, are directly related to the spiritual heritage that had been accumulating for thousands of years, enriched and subsequently flowed into the spiritual treasury of humanity. The Kurdish people,during a long...
Desperately Seeking Full-Time Kurdologists Prof. M. Izady A most important first step in launching the field of Kurdish studies is the creation of a cadre of area studies scholars and academics whose primary interests are Kurds. Thus far it has been the Turkologist, Arabist, Armeniologist or Iranist...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Russian sculptor P. Kamensky (1858–1923), on request of the imperial family, performed in porcelain sculptures of representatives of different nationalities living in Russia. Among the figures there are paired figures of a Kurd and a Kurdish...