Edgar C. Polomé
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Edgar Ghislain Charles Polomé was a Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar. He specialized in Germanic and Indo-European studies and was active at the University of Texas at Austin
Edgar C. Polomé
Gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot, an object from the Nordic Bronze Age. Polomé was interested in Germanic religion and its Indo-European components.
Swahili
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Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language of the Atlantic–Congo language family, originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique. Estima
Edgar C. Polomé
…Swedish, Danish and Gothic), Indo-Iranian (such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Pali, Avestan and Old Persian), Celtic, Baltic and Bantu languages (particularly Swahili), and Greek and Hittite. After winning a scholarship, Polomé entered the Free University of Brussels to study Germanic philology. Passing his freshman…
Although originally written with the Arabic script, Swahili is now written in a Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries and colonial administrators. The text shown here is the Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer.
Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (c. early 1900s)
Loxodonta africana elephants frolic in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 2012.