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cu-1 Сь польѕевател҄ь глагол҄єтъ словѣньскꙑ зълѣ.
sga-1 Attá foglaimm bunaid inna Sen-Goídilce ocin scríbnid se.
ine-pro-1 Só dʰértōr ph₂wóm séneh₂s dn̥ǵʰuh₂és wékʷti.
yi-1 ‫דער באַניצער האָט תּוך־ידיעה פֿון ייִדיש.‬
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About me

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I'm Kavindad1. Born in New Jersey, I moved throughout Connecticut, Vermont, and Pennsylvania before settling down in California. I am a graduate of Penn State and the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, currently a doctoral candidate at the Universiteit Leiden.

My background is in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. I have experience with:

  • English
  • Latin
  • Ancient Greek
  • Sanskrit
  • Spanish
  • French

and have also taken courses in:

  • Old Irish
  • Hittite
  • Tocharian
  • Middle Persian
  • Zazaki
  • Old Church Slavonic
  • Hieroglyphic Luwian

and am working on:

  • Italian
  • Etruscan
  • Classical Nauhatl
  • Hopi
  • Yiddish

Current Interests

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I am currently specializing in the Italic languages, on the search for the pre-Indo-European languages of Italy.

Wikipedia

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I am also a relatively active Wikipedia user, and you can find me there at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kavindad1

Entries created

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Tocharian A oṅk
Welsh nwyf
Latin spionia
Hittite 𒀀𒇷𒂖
Latin a tergo
Latin bocia
Latin diversifico, Latin diversificare
Latin falco 'to mow', Latin falcandus
Latin ver sacrum