Do the widespread 1sg n-/m- and 2sg b-/w- paradigms signal an African macro-family, or are they just the linguistic fingerprints of 12 000 years of contact?
Pronouns Across Africa: Shared Roots or Shared Contact?


Do the widespread 1sg n-/m- and 2sg b-/w- paradigms signal an African macro-family, or are they just the linguistic fingerprints of 12 000 years of contact?

Exploring how ultra-stable words like pronouns and numerals preserve deep traces of linguistic ancestry across continents.

Commentary on Nicolas Bruneteau’s Proto-Sapiens glossary, focusing on the globally persistent roots hankwa (breath, life) and henkwi (snake, dragon).

Exploring the hypothesis of two intertwined Proto-Sapiens roots, *hankwa (breath, life, soul) and *henkwi (snake, dragon), by examining proposed cognates across global language families and their implications for the Snake Cult of Consciousness.

How the Soviet Union’s unique mix of ideology and academia produced an outsized cadre of linguists obsessed with linking the world’s languages.

Exploring the hypothesis that the Chinese mother goddess Nüwa preserves a cultural memory of end-Ice Age floods and the dawn of self-aware human consciousness.

Examining linguistic cognates and proposed Proto-Australian vocabulary across Aboriginal languages, exploring evidence for deep genetic relationships despite extreme linguistic diversity.

A comprehensive global survey of flood myths and their heroic survivors, from Noah and Utnapishtim to lesser-known deluge heroes across cultures worldwide.

Explores ancient serpent myths across the Americas, their deep antiquity, and links to the evolution of human consciousness.

An exploration of Chinese serpent deities Nüwa and Fuxi through the lens of the Eve Theory of Consciousness, revealing parallels between Eastern and Western creation myths.