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Scytho-Cimmerian rulers and their offsprings, "behind the name"

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"As a general rule, the Scythians and Cimmerians are not those who are not referred to in the historical record as such." Keywords: Scythian language, Cimmerian language, Antique Slavic languages, Antique Germanic languages, Neo-Assyrian Empire Narrated Text (minorly different from the real speech in the video, the textual version being primary; every new timestamp is a new slide on the screen): ( 00:00:00 ) Hello everyone. This episode in my series about the linguistic landscape of Ukraine and neighbouring regions will be started the same way as the previous one, from our favourite section. So, "Previously." In the previous video, which is indirectly labeled "Video No.4", we've made several important scientific discoveries of our days. Besides our knowledge, which we've confirmed on various samples of terms, names, found in the historical record, that the Scythians were Slavic speakers, a new discovery I've shared with you has been the provab...
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Psammetichus's Law, or the most ancient language in the world the Colchis dragon spoke

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"How did the world's first language emerge?" and "Where?" are questions historical linguists usually ignore when they try to provide their reconstructions of proto-languages. But when they try to answer the question "When?" applying it to some hypothetical intermediary proto-language, they willingly use methods and tools from other sciences not initially intended to be used in linguistics, with no verification of the results obtained in such a way. The issues with reconstructing a proto-language start with the system of rules assumed in the comparative method's model. In this video, we will shed more light on why this system is likely to be wrong using, among others, the historical record and provide a fresh and more precise perspective on the languages of Ukraine, the Caucasus, and some regions outside, of the ancient and mediaeval period - including Scythian, Cimmerian, Sauromatian, and Hunnic to name a few. Keywords: Scythian language, Cimmerian...
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