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Yawan Languages
Yawan may refer to: * Yawan District Yawan ( fa, یاوان) is one of the 28 districts of Afghanistan, districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from part of the Ragh District and is home to approximately 36,037 residents. See also *Ragh Distri ..., Afghanistan * Javan, the fourth son of Noah's third son Japheth * Peba–Yaguan languages, a language family in the northwestern Amazon {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yawan District
Yawan ( fa, یاوان) is one of the 28 districts of Afghanistan, districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from part of the Ragh District and is home to approximately 36,037 residents. See also *Ragh District References External linksMap at the Afghanistan Information Management Services Districts of Badakhshan Province {{Badakhshan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javan
Javan () was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks. Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general, יָוָן ''Yavan'' or ''Yāwān'' has long been considered cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians (Greek Ἴωνες ''Iōnes'', Homeric Greek Ἰάονες ''Iáones''; Mycenaean Greek *Ιαϝονες ''Iawones''). Giving that all Torah scrolls are strictly un punctuated reading the word יון can give ''Yon'', given as the letter Vaw may just as equally function as consonant (read "v") or vowel (read "o" or " ʊ"). The Greek race has been known by cognate names throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East and beyond: see Sanskrit ''Yona'' & Sanskrit ( ''yavana'') or the proto- Aryan languages from which Sanskrit probably originated. In Greek mythology, the epo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
