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Comparative Method
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at 11:49 AM, Friday December 28, 2007 EST
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womkakkers wrote
at 2:32 PM, Friday December 28, 2007 EST ????
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Grunvagr wrote
at 3:19 PM, Friday December 28, 2007 EST yeah, it's said all human languages tie back to one original spoken language by the proto-europeans / proto-asians, people who originally migrated out of southeastern Asia, around where India is today
that's why every single language, twisted enough, or with enough imagination can directly relate to any other, or at least aspects of words dyaus pitar.... jupitar.... jeus, zeus bueno, bem, bom, bene-ficial, beneficial, etc drink enough wine and the sounds all make sense, haha |
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pizza_the_hutt wrote
at 11:29 PM, Friday December 28, 2007 EST vagr,
Those are all (or appear to be) Indo-European languages. It is fairly well accepted that there was a "proto-indo-european" language (which was actually spoken in what is now Russia), but each language family has its own proto language (so there is a proto-semitic, the ancestor of Arabic, Hebrew and a bunch of African languages), proto-Dravidian (from the Indian subcontinent, the ancestor of southern Indian languages -- they speak Indo-European languages in the north of India), etc. etc. It is much more controversial that there was a single language (proto-babel or whatever) spoken by all humans at one point. The evidence for this just isn't very strong. And they certainly didn't live in India. |
