25 июн. 2021 г. · The reconstructed root for no is the Proto-Indo-European root *ne. Which has descendants in the Slavic languages, Russian не; the Germanic languages, English ...

8 апр. 2023 г. · In English, we have common negative words like no, not, and never. Other languages do this too, like Portuguese não and Russian niet.

13 июл. 2016 г. · The reason they all start with 'n' is because European languages often use the Latin alphabet. Roman had controlled most of Europe, so ...

21 июл. 2024 г. · n-negation is the norm in Indo-European languages, but it's found in other languages like Hungarian (nem) and Japanese (-nai). m-negation is ...

29 дек. 2022 г. · [n] is one of the most common sounds on earth. There's bound to be overlap across languages, but over all it's just random chance outside of language families.

6 дек. 2011 г. · Yes, it is coincidence. There's only so many phonemes, and 6000 some-odd languages in the world. Some of them are going to have 'n' be associated with negative ...

24 июн. 2019 г. · I was looking at how to say yes and no in different languages, and the word for "no" in a lot of them still start with N.

2 дек. 2022 г. · A lot of Chinese languages have /n/->/l/ at the start of a syllable. Nanjing->Lanjing, Nai->Lai. (Haven't got an IPA input method handy, but ...

25 мар. 2019 г. · In many Indo-European languages, their words for "night" and for "eight" each trace back to a common ancestor word, and the languages in ...

12 янв. 2024 г. · Yes many, two of the languages I speak have them as separate phonemes: in Irish, sin /ʃɪnʲ/ “that” vs sinn /ʃɪɲ/,/ʃiːɲ/ “we, us”, in French, ...