Linguistic glob

1. Introduction: The Alphabet as a Cultural Event Among the many inventions that have shaped human history, the alphabet stands uniquely at the boundary of the technical and the mythical. It is at once a system of signs—compact, efficient, repeatable—and a cultural artifact that carries, often silently, the memory of ancient imaginations about the nature of language. The alphabet we now call “Greek,” derived from the Phoenician script and foundational for later European writing traditions, has long been studied historically and philologically. Yet beyond phonetic value and historical lineage lies another dimension: the symbolic life of letters. This essay offers an interpretive and metaphorical meditation on the symbolic meanings of the earliest letters of the Greek alphabet. The inquiry does not attempt to revise the well-established historical account of its Semitic origins; nor does it argue for direct linguistic descent from any particular language. Rather, it explores how concep...

Nero / Neró: Linguistic Divergence and Symbolic Convergence Author:   Fatmir Iliazi Word Count: ~1,200 Abstract This article examines the apparent phonetic similarity between the Modern Greek noun neró (νερό), meaning “water,” and the Latin proper name Nero . Although historical linguistics establishes no etymological relationship between the two forms, symbolic and structural analysis suggests that both can be interpreted through a shared matrix of elemental and cosmological meanings. The study therefore distinguishes between (1) diachronic linguistic development and (2) a speculative symbolic-hermeneutic code, arguing that while the words diverge in historical origin, they may converge within a broader semiotic system rooted in rotation, cyclicality, and life-generative processes. Keywords Neró; Nero; Greek linguistics; Latin names; symbolism; structural hermeneutics; elemental semiotics; rotational code. 1. Introduction Cross-linguistic phonetic correspondences oft...

Position: Toward a Conceptual and Symbolic Reconstruction The conventional etymological narrative traces position to late Middle English posicioun , adopted from Old French posicion and ultimately from Latin positio —a noun of state derived from ponere , “to put, to place.” Classical philology thus interprets position primarily as an act of placement or the result of placing. Competing Indo-European derivations further nuance this picture: one hypothesis links it to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to leave, to let go,” while another connects it to a root meaning “to build, settle, or dwell,” thereby situating position within the broader semantic field of habitation, foundation, and emplacement. Historically, the semantic evolution of position converges around spatial, logical, and social domains. In the sixteenth century it designates the place a person or object occupies; by the eighteenth century it also refers to the configuration of a body in space; and by the nineteenth...

The Metaphysics of Q Symbol, Sound, and the Primordial Grammar of Creation 1. Introduction: Q as a Survival of the Pre-Linguistic World Among the letters of the modern alphabet, Q stands out as an anomaly—a sound that resists easy articulation, a symbol whose ancient weight exceeds its contemporary use, a glyph that seems to have wandered into the modern world from a far older cosmological order. Unlike letters whose origins are clear within the evolution of writing systems, Q carries the aura of an inherited mystery. Its very pronunciation requires a bodily gesture that feels ritualistic: a rising of the tongue, a shaping of the mouth, a momentary meeting of interior pressure and exterior release. In the Albanian sound qi , we encounter this primordial resonance directly. Before it became a letter, before writing existed, qi belonged to the ancient stratum of vibrational meaning , where sound was not a symbol of the world but the world’s expression through human breath . The met...

Do Dogs Think? Rethinking Canine Cognition Beyond Linguistic Models Author:  Fatmir Iliazi Word Count: ~2,000 Abstract This article examines whether dogs engage in genuine cognitive processes—specifically, whether they “think”—despite lacking a linguistic system comparable to that of humans. Traditional models of cognition often link thought to language, suggesting that non-linguistic species possess only limited or reactive mental processes. Through theoretical analysis and a detailed behavioral case study involving a domestic dog, this article argues that canine cognition involves intentionality, social inference, memory integration, and context-sensitive problem-solving. These findings challenge language-centric views of thought and demonstrate that dogs possess a non-linguistic yet structurally coherent form of cognition rooted in perceptual, emotional, and associative systems. The article proposes a broader conceptual framework for understanding animal minds as capable of th...

Abstract This article proposes a symbolic–iconic interpretive model—here termed the Symbolic Codex of the Albanian Language —as an alternative to conventional comparative and historical linguistic methodologies. The central claim is that Albanian preserves an archaic system of graphic, phonetic, and kinematic codes embedded in the structure of its lexicon. These symbolic codes, it is argued, predate and underlie later linguistic developments in the Mediterranean sphere, including those visible in Etruscan, Latin, and Italian. Through a structural comparison of the Albanian goja/gola (“mouth”) and the Italian sole (“sun”), the article demonstrates how distinct semantic fields can exhibit identical symbolic architectures. The existence of this shared architecture suggests a deeper, often overlooked continuity of linguistic intelligence grounded in early Albanian conceptual systems. Conventional Indo-European etymology, while genealogically useful, is shown to be insufficient for expla...

The question of symbolism begins not with an object but with an origin—an emergence of meaning prior to any distinction between the “first” and the “pure.” In the horizon of early thought, these two do not confront each other as separate concepts; they are co-given, unfolding from the same primordial openness of being. Their unity arises because both are grounded in a singular symbolic event, a gesture through which language first lets the world appear. The initial form of being is pure not as a moral category but as an ontological condition. It is the state in which being has not yet been touched by the sedimentation of alteration, by the layering that conceals as much as it reveals. Once modification occurs, a second stratum is imposed—an intrusion of otherness that veils the transparency of the first. In this moment, the originary I (A) withdraws; its presence recedes into a form of absence, into what Heidegger might call a “no-longer” that nevertheless continues to speak through ...