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 - Research Articles
When I Means the Same Thing Everywhere: How Pronouns Hint at a Proto Sapiens
Exploring how ultra-stable words like pronouns and numerals preserve deep traces of linguistic ancestry across continents.
Knower Self And The Gn Erosion Hypotheses
A deep dive into two speculative etymologies linking the global N-pronoun to ‘knowing’—either semantically (knower = self) or phonetically (ǵn- > n-).
知る者の自己とGn侵食仮説
世界のN-代名詞を「知ること」と結びつける2つの推測的語源学を深く掘り下げる—意味的に(知る者 = 自己)または音声的に(ǵn- > n-)。