Re:How many languages are there in the world?
by teleforce on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:16AM
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Please check this Austronesian basic vocabulary language database [1]. Apparently Austronesian language family is the largest family in the world containing around 1,000 and 1,200 languages including Hawaiian language.
Recently I was checking an HN post regarding 'garum', a long lost ancient Roman fish sauce that was once very popular in Pompeii[2]. The most similar sauce's ingredients to garum is the fish sauce from Vietnam and during the time of ancient Pompeii, Champa Empire was ruling the place and most of South East Asia [3].
The Cham language is the precursor to the modern day Malay-Indonesian language (top ten most popular language in the world). The Austronesian database contains 210 basic vocabulary words for more than 1000 Austronesian languages and conveniently one of the included common words is salt. Garam (salt), Masin/asin (salty) and sira (salt-licks) are the most common words across the database being used to represent 'salt' in this largest family of languages in the world. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, Proto-Chamic and Proto-Malayic do not contain the word 'garam' but Proto-Aceh does, and most likely it is a loan word from ancient Roman that used garum as the main source for fish taste (umami) and salt for cooking. The Aceh language was originated from Cham during 1 AD around the time of ancient Pompeii flourished before its calamity befell.
Recently I was checking an HN post regarding 'garum', a long lost ancient Roman fish sauce that was once very popular in Pompeii[2]. The most similar sauce's ingredients to garum is the fish sauce from Vietnam and during the time of ancient Pompeii, Champa Empire was ruling the place and most of South East Asia [3].
The Cham language is the precursor to the modern day Malay-Indonesian language (top ten most popular language in the world). The Austronesian database contains 210 basic vocabulary words for more than 1000 Austronesian languages and conveniently one of the included common words is salt. Garam (salt), Masin/asin (salty) and sira (salt-licks) are the most common words across the database being used to represent 'salt' in this largest family of languages in the world. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, Proto-Chamic and Proto-Malayic do not contain the word 'garam' but Proto-Aceh does, and most likely it is a loan word from ancient Roman that used garum as the main source for fish taste (umami) and salt for cooking. The Aceh language was originated from Cham during 1 AD around the time of ancient Pompeii flourished before its calamity befell.
[1]https://abvd.shh.mpg.de/austronesian/
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310179
[3]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140616-so...