navajo is such a strange english word. like, it's an exonym, which is already cringe (tewa "navahu" = large field, endonym is navajo "dené" = people), but then the spanish spelling got directly loaned and lexicalized into english even though like, <j> is not /h/ in english
pew "pubg bridge" die "kill all jews" pie is 6th most subscribed on youtube now? t-series is first, then mrbeast, then cocomelon, sony india, kids diana show, and then pewdiepie
huh
the distribution of athabaskan and na-dené languages more generally is weird. there's a bunch in alaska and northwest canada, a bunch in southern US, some on the west coast, and then a giant hole in their distribution in the middle
i mean, if they are actually related to yeniseian languages, then there's also a giant hole through bering and eastern siberia up to the few (one…) yeniseian language in krasnoyarsk krai
kinda weird how some indian states have sanskrit as an official language. it'd be like if a place in italy had latin as an official language. well okay the vatican but like it's in-character, less so for a large indian state that people actually live in
>It is one of the few languages to lack both /p/ and /ɡ/, along with Arapaho, Goliath and Efik, as well as classical Arabic and some modern Arabic dialects.
why is arabic so. weird
like arabic has a lot of features which are extremely uncommon if not essentially unheard of, not just among the languages of the world, but even within its own afroasiatic family