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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 04/03/2026

⭐ KANDIDATQUIZ ⭐ Se om dine fordomme om folketingskandidater holder stik! Prøv kandidatquizzen på: sproghistorie.dk/kandidatquiz/

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Kandidatquiz: Folketingsvalg 2026

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Alwin Kloekhorst @alwinkloekhorst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Very glad that the volume ‘The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories’ (edited by Tijmen Pronk and myself) has now appeared. brill.com/display/titl... Looking forward to hearing reactions to it!

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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 08/12/2025

The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, has announced a position as Full Professor of Indo-European Studies: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Professorship in Indo-European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 01/12/2025

Job announcements: PhD position and postdoc position in Indo-European Studies in Copenhagen A PhD position (36 months) and a postdoc position (20 months) have been announced within the research project “The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated” (rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/rese...).

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The Indo-European Dark Ages Illuminated – University of Copenhagen

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Folk-etymological speculations aside, I would like to (once again) draw attention that in δεινόσαυρος the compound member δεινός often glossed as 'terrible' has semantics of 'fearful; awe-inspiring, awesome', so δεινόσαυροι are, in fact, etymologically 'awesome lizards'.

Panel two of Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics template with 'AWESOME LIZARDS' in the caption.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

New Open Access Publication from my colleagues at UCPH! Power, Gender and Mobility: Aspects of Indo-European Society. Edited by Riccardo Ginevra, Stefan Höfler, and Birgit Anette Olsen (Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European Volume 10).

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Museum Tusculanums Forlag - Power, Gender, and Mobility

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Carlsbergfondet @carlsbergfondet.dk · 24/09/2025

📘Hvordan følger man det danske sprog 6000 år tilbage i tiden? Det forsøger sprogforsker Thomas Olander bla at besvare i sin nye bog ’Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen’ om det danske sprogs udvikling 👉 bit.ly/4gDmYcj #dkforsk @sproghistorie.dk

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

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The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset

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ubiquityopen.bsky.social @ubiquityopen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A new book from Stockholm University Press, 'Indo-European Ecologies', is now available to read and download for free, completely #OpenAccess, here: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1... @sproghistorie.dk olander.bsky.social

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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Upcoming project conference: New Perspectives on the Early History of Ancient Greek (Copenhagen, 4.–5. August 2025). Link to the programme in the alt-text.

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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 13/05/2025

Do you like real books? Is an open-access PDF on your hard drive not committing enough? Is a hardback too inflexible (and too expensive: £88 😬)? Very good news: the paperback version of “The Indo-European language family” is here! You even get a discount with the code in the flyer 💸

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Center for the Human Past (CHP) @humanpastcenter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our Jenny Larsson reports: "Finally out: the book about Proto-Indo-European by science journalist Laura Spinney. She's been following our work with combining languages, archaeology, and aDNA for a few years now. Very exciting to see the result!" #indoeuropean #humanpast @cschlebu.bsky.social

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Simon Poulsen @simonpoulsen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thanks to everyone who's read and engaged with my paper (🐐🪓 doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12308) 💙 I've summarised the comments, and there's now a little squib with the harvest of those fruitful discussions on philsoc.org.uk/transactions and doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Transactions | The Philological Society

Transactions of the Philological Society

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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Following a post by @linguisticdiscovery.com which claimed that "alligator pear" was specifically a british word for avocado, contrasting with what I had previously heard, namely that it was a US southern term - I started doing some digging. What I found was surprising and very interesting:

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Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead @beniewhthd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I wanna find those guys.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Italian is a bit of an outlier among the major Romance languages. Spanish has 'escuela', Portuguese has 'escola', French has 'école' - all starting with a vowel - but in Italian it's 'scuola'. Did it never get a vowel? It sure did: Old Italian had 'iscuola'! Here's the story of this little vowel:

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Recently I was a guest on the Aegean Connections podcast hosted by Ester Salgarella. I had a chance to talk about my past research and also what I've been up to with my current MCSA project on non-IE substrata in Ancient Greek.

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Episode 9 (Matthew Scarborough) - Greek & Pre-Greek: in search of loanwords (nearly) lost to time

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Iosif Lazaridis @iosiflazaridis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Our papers, out today in @nature.com, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/

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Simon Poulsen @simonpoulsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's me, I'm the colleague, and I am now on Bluesky 🐐🪓💙

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Yggdrasil @yggdrasil.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thomas Olander @olander.bsky.social asks: "Was the Danish language invented by Big Language History to sell more sound change?" Anyone with even the slightest acquaintance with Danish will answer "Yes". As far as I can tell, the Danes looked at English historical change and said, "Hold my beer."

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Thomas Olander @sproghistorie.dk · 15/11/2024

Was the Danish language invented by Big Language History to sell more sound change? That’s very hard to know. But now you can see for yourself¹ in my ⭐️⭐️⭐️ new book ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen [Danish from the present to the Stone Age] upress.dk/vare/dansk-f...

“Dansk fra nutiden til stenalderen” book cover

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