#Slavic

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Yesterday i made a post about bridal headpieces & @eob_Rene brought to my attention that something is missing, but what exactly?Today i will expand by explaining traditional Slavic weddings in

Nóra Veszprémi

Time for another Hungarian linguistics thread. Featuring my favourite topic in etymology: taboo words.Well, the thread won’t really use taboo words. God forbid. Those are taboo!Instead, it will look at

It's a double holiday today, Eid al-Fitr and the day we celebrate the Cyrillic alphabet in Bulgaria, which is also used by millions of Muslims around the world. So Eid

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Why Your Fave is Problematic Episode 55675634: Netflix's "Shadow and Bone" and the bizarre flattening of the world by american and british producers (1/x) a while ago, my buddy &

In "Borat," "Kazakhs" stand in, in Sacha Baron Cohen's mind, for his ancestral enemies, the Cossacks (the Christian Slavic cavalrymen whose pogrom ruins the wedding of the daughter of Tevye,

Tartu Krab 🌐

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The Bashkir language is spoken by the Bashkirs (no shit), a Turkic people who predominantly live in contemporary Central Russia. Their words for "straw" and "pencil" are related, but ended

A generic female water faerieIt's a mix of a greek chiton for women as well as a multi-layered dress with mesopotamian patternings. I'm including a few of the references I

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Unpopular opinion: I've read many people here stating that even if someone speaks 8 languages but they are all Western Romance languages, then they don't deserve to be called "polyglots".

Folk Horror Magpie

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As the nights draw in I find myself turning more to folk stories from the Slavic pantheon. The ones with cautionary tales for children to remind them to stick to

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Thread: This is Priapus, Ancient Greek god of the male reproductive power and fertility and the fertility of nature in general. Allegedly he originated in Hellespont from where his cult

starting leslie's polish eddie fic (dedicated to me!!!!! aaaa) and i cant explain why exactly but the way the dialogue is written literally feels like im reading it in a

Patchwork Heart (Commissions Open)

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“Whiteness” homogenizes everything unique about different nations with pale populations. There are so mamy drastically different cultures to explore, but “White” people just kinda.. mush them all together. Look at

THREAD ON YA8UKI, please read !!okay so today i noticed oomf was getting cancelled for these tweets and for using the name kira, this thread may be a bit disorganised

slavic micro-ethnicities u might didn't know about: gorani/goranci are a slavic muslim ethnic group inhabiting the gora region the triangle between serbia, albania, and macedonia. / they number 60,000 people,

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Woke up wanting to dive deeper in my Slavic side. Sometimes I feel like my ancestors are screaming, “Okay, enough of the American bullshit go back to your roots.” Babushka,

Since my feed is discussing this again, a short thread on why Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin are both the same and not the same language: 1. In the most