Cross posted from: Latin@lemm.ee
lingua latina pater linguarum dimidum est 😎
I hope it's okay for me to crosspost here.
Cool diagram! Would be better if it pointed out that the Portuguese word "real" only refers to currency in Brazil, not Portugal. The origin appears correct and the word is used in Portugal either to say something is "regal" or "real".
It also referred to currency in Portugal when we had a monarchy, precisely because of the meaning of "regal".
Thanks for pointing that out, I had totally forgotten about that, was only thinking of the Escudo.
Is PIE something like proto-indo-eurasian, or just something to do with pies?
I haven't heard of people screaming about pies in someone's face, so I think it's safe to assume PIE means proto-indo-european :)
They're called Laryngeals, and no one really knows how to pronounce them, from what I can tell.
Edit, there are two theories on how to pronounce them:
Rasmussen chose a consonantal realization for *h₃ as a voiced labialized velar fricative [ɣʷ], with a syllabic allophone [ɵ], i.e. a close-mid central rounded vowel. Kümmel instead suggests [ʁ].