Fun, albeit slightly pedantic, fact. Slavic languages, like Muscovite (which became “Russian”), only spread to Siberia during the Russian Tsardom’s settler colonial invasion in the late 1500s.
Before then we had lots of different indigenous languages, many in Turkic or Uralic language groups. So “Ivan Mammothovic” is an anarchronism.
I know this isn’t strictly the subject at hand, but an old friend of mine is working on learning the Choctaw (Native American) language after maybe 20 years of working as a professional Japanese translator. He discovered an alarming number of cognates between words in Choctaw and words in Japanese, Okinawan, Ryukyuan, and Ainu language.
He made a video game “memory palace” to explore the similarities. Very cool experience, worth exploring if you love languages and have an interest in Native American culture.
Fun, albeit slightly pedantic, fact. Slavic languages, like Muscovite (which became “Russian”), only spread to Siberia during the Russian Tsardom’s settler colonial invasion in the late 1500s.
Before then we had lots of different indigenous languages, many in Turkic or Uralic language groups. So “Ivan Mammothovic” is an anarchronism.
I know this isn’t strictly the subject at hand, but an old friend of mine is working on learning the Choctaw (Native American) language after maybe 20 years of working as a professional Japanese translator. He discovered an alarming number of cognates between words in Choctaw and words in Japanese, Okinawan, Ryukyuan, and Ainu language.
He made a video game “memory palace” to explore the similarities. Very cool experience, worth exploring if you love languages and have an interest in Native American culture.
https://tomatogame.itch.io/halito-tomato
This is so cool. You have a cool friend.
İlkhan Filoğlu.
EDIT : I want to have this pointed out explicitly that the name translates to “First Khan, Son of Elephant”