へぇ。バローチ方面でもこんなポップな歌歌う子おるんだ。
カラチ住みのアーバン男子なんだろうけど。

◖|•ᴥ•|◗♫♡ < #NowPlaying Balochi New Song " Garan Garan - Daniyal Sheikh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxEPJ3fN848&ab_channel=DarkStreet

#Music #マストドン音楽好き部 #Pakistan #Balochi

Balochi New Song " Garan Garan - Daniyal Sheikh

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I also contributed some input methods to #emacs: a couple for #urdu, but also for #pashto, #sindhi and #balochi. Among these I only speak #urdu the rest just copied available keyboard layouts. These will be part of Emacs 30.

Audio Etymologies of the Day

“Fire” comes from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂‐ur [pa(ħ)ur], something like this (listen):
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/fire-from-PIE-pahur.wav

The same root developed into Balochi پُر phor “ashes, flames”:
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pahur-to-Balochi-phor.wav
(and Ancient Greek πῦρ [pyr], Latin pyra, pyre, pyro-, etc.)

In Armenian, it comes out as հուր hur:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pahur-to-Armenian-hur.wav

Image source: https://hoonch.am/post/grakanutyun/hay-grakanutyun/hur-ev-jur

#linguistics #etymology #EnglishLanguage #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Balochi #Armenian

Audio Etymologies of the Day

“Foot” comes from Proto-Indo-European *pōd-, something like this:
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/foot-from-PIE-pod.wav

*pōd- developed into Sanskrit पद pad, now a “learnèd word” in Hindi:
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Hindi-pad.wav

In Balochi, it's پاد paad:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Balochi-paad.wav

And in Pashto, it comes out as پل pal “footstep”, with *d developing into [l] (“lambdacism”):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Pashto-pal.wav

#linguistics #etymology #EnglishLanguage #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Sanskrit #Balochi #Pashto

Audio Etymologies of the Day

“Weigh” comes from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰ- (listen):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/weigh-from-PIE-wegh.wav

*wéǵʰ- also developed into (the second syllable of) Balochi and Persian پرواز parwaz “flight”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-wegh-to-Balochi-parwaz.wav

the first syllable of Sanskrit वहति vahati “to convey”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-wegh-to-Sanskrit-vahati.wav

and the first syllable of Urdu بہنا behna “to flow”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-wegh-to-Urdu-behna.wav

#linguistics #etymology #EnglishLanguage #phonetics
#ProtoIndoEuropean #Balochi #Urdu #Sanskrit

Audio Etymologies of the Day

“Wasp” comes (via Anglo-Saxon waps) from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wobʰ-seh₂, a form of *h₁webʰ-, “weave”. Ignoring the -seh₂ suffix, like this (listen):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/wasp-from-PIE-wobh.wav

*h₁webʰ- also developed into Balochi گْوَپت gwap “weave”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1webh-to-Balochi-gwap.wav

#linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Balochi

Audio Etymologies of the Month

“Month” comes, via Anglo-Saxon mōnaþ, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁-not [me:not], like this (listen):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/month-from-PIE-meh1not.wav

It is related to *méh₁-nos [me:nos], #moon, which led to Latin mensis:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-meh1nos-to-Latin-mensis.wav

The stem *méh₁- "measure" also developed into Persian, Balochi and Urdu ماه mah:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-meh1nos-to-Persian-mah.wav

@linguistics #linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Persian #Balochi #Urdu #Latin