Linguistic typology

A Spanish archaeologist whose staggering discoveries included one of the earliest representations of the crucifixion and proof that the written Basque language was centuries older than previously thought has been found guilty of faking the finds.

The saga began in June 2006 when Eliseo Gil presented artefacts excavated from the Roman town of Veleia, near the Basque city of Vitoria.

President Klaus Iohannis on Monday welcomed at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in which context he showed this country is one of the traditional economic partners of Romania in South-East Asia and encouraged an increase in trade exchanges between Romania and Vietnam.

The Sumerologist Veysel Donbaz speaks languages almost no one speaks today: Sumerian, Hittite, and two dialects of Akkadian, which are Assyrian and Babylonian.

Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev proposes a change in Art. 53 of the Constitution, which stipulates that at least primary education is compulsory. He announced it to bTV. He explain that it is currently for up to 16 years, but the degree is not specified.

German police were scrambling on April 8 to understand the motives of a man who drove a van into a crowd at an open-air restaurant, killing two people before shooting himself.

An automatic translator from and into Bulgarian in 24 languages ​​is now available on the Bulgarian Presidency website. The new tool can translate texts, documents and entire websites. The new software was presented by Minister Lilyana Pavlova and Professor Svetla Koeva, Director of the Bulgarian Language Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The Greek language is one of the few ancient languages in the world that is still spoken in its modern form today. It is considered a separate branch of the Indo-European languages, and has influenced many languages across the world, including Latin -the root of the Romance languages of French, Italian, Spanish etc- and English, among many others.

Polish Ambassador to Romania Marek Szczygiel says he wants the north-south corridor between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea revitalised.

Polish Ambassador to Romania Marek Szczygiel
Photo credit: (c) Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES PHOTO

“We had a language which was very suitable for science; yet we slept over it one night and the next morning it was gone. Now we have been dragged down to the level of a country which learns and teaches science in foreign languages. Thousands of words and languages are forgotten. The structure of the language, which used to be suitable for deriving new words and expressions, was curbed.”

A crisis in the Kurdish peace bid has passed and a new phase in the process has started, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has said, noting that issues that need to be resolved in the process would be done so urgently.